Music Quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary, music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

See, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CD’s and burn ’em. Cause you know what? The musicians who made […]

‘Lohengrin’ to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the monotony.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

To describe what you’ve read is like explaining music in writing.

Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.

You’re talking to someone who really understands rock music.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites – opposite bends, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity – where energies flow smoothly in one direction – there will be much doing but no music.

It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.