Quotes About Music

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
-- Benny Green

"He who sings scares away his woes."
-- Cervantes

"Music is what feelings sound like."
-- Anonymous

"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."
-- Robert Browning

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
-- Leo Tolstoy

"You are the music while the music lasts."
-- T. S. Eliot

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"When the music changes, so does the dance."
-- African Proverb

"Music is an outburst of the soul."
-- Frederick Delius

"Where words fail, music speaks."
-- Hans Christian Andersen

"We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself."
-- Louis Armstrong

"What we play is life."
-- Louis Armstrong

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
-- Bono

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
-- Bob Marley

"Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us."
-- Anonymous

"... music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now ... "
-- Sam Andrew

"Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter.
Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music
that we might pray without words."
-- Anonymous

"Country music is three chords and the truth."
-- Harlan Howard

"After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-- Aldous Huxley

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
-- Jean Paul Richter