After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison
