Quotes for Music

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Leonard Cohen

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

Andrea Bocelli

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

Maya Angelou

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

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

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

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

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Nas

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

George Gershwin

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

Berthold Auerbach

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

When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

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

Pope John Paul II

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Satyajit Ray

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

Victor Hugo

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

Pablo Casals