Music Quotes

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Latin and soul music have been the traditional musical forms in Spanish Harlem; Latin music because it represents our own unique life-force, and soul because for better or worse our destinies are inextricably tied to that of the black nation insofar as we live, work, and die with it. In every slum in New York […]

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

There are, indeed, only two kinds of music: German music and bad music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Objectivity in music is rubbish – Have you ever had an objective love affair? And what is music but love?

Nothing on earth is so well suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.