Quotes from Musicians

 

Quotes from Musicians and Composers 

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”– Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.”– John Lennon

“Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.”– Gene Simmons

“Music can change the world.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”– Bruce Springsteen

“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.”– Pete Doherty

“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”– Billy Joel

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”– Ludwig van Beethoven

“There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”– Franz Joseph Haydn

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”– Claude Debussy

“To play without passion is inexcusable!” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”– Dmitri Shostakovich

“A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?”– Dave Grohl

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”– James Taylor

“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.”– Edward Elgar

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”– Bob Marley

“Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono

“Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.”– Billie Joe Armstrong

“I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.”– Kenny Rogers

“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”– Billy Joel

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”– Eddie Van Halen

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”– Frédéric Chopin

“Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”– Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”– Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. “– Shania Twain

“Music is my religion.”– Jimi Hendrix

“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practicing, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”– Robert Schumann

“You can cage the singer but not the song.” – Harry Belafonte

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.”– Jason Mraz

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”– Gustav Mahler

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”– Paul Simon

“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”– David Bowie

“Music comes from a place we don’t know.”– Chris Martin

“Music is a safe kind of high.”– Jimi Hendrix

“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.”– Nina Simone

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” – Louis Armstrong

“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.”– Ray Charles

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”– Duke Ellington

“Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!”– Maria von Trapp

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”– Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music should be your escape.”– Missy Elliot

“My music isn’t just music – its medicine.”– Kanye West

“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.” – Taylor Swift

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”– Michael Jackson

“Life and love go on, let the music play.”– Johnny Cash

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”– Aaron Copland

“Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.”– Herbie Hancock

“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky

“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”– Michael Jackson

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.”– Bono

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”– Johann Sebastian Bach

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”– Frank Zappa

Words on The Power of Music

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.”– Kurt Vonnegut

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”– Martin Luther

“My ambition was to live like music.” – Mary Gaitskill

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”– Hannah Harrington

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”– Elton John

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.”– Aretha Franklin

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”– Oliver Sacks

“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.”– Carl Jung

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”– Douglas Adams

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”– Albert Einstein

“Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.” – Pete Seeger

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”– Charles Darwin

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”– Aldous Huxley

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”– Steve Maraboli

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”– Maya Angelou

“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”– Oscar Wilde

“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”– Colbie Caillat

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”– Robert Browning

“‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic beyond all we do here!'”– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”– Bryce Anderson

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”– Yip Harburg

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” – Criss Jami

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”– Bob Marley

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”– Edgar Winter