Quotes for Music

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

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

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Leonard Cohen

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin

When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pope John Paul II

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

Victor Hugo

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Faith Hill

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

Nipsey Hussle