music Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

138 music Quotes
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
“I don't believe in having bands for solo records.”
Mick Jagger Quotes
“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
Elvis Presley Quotes
“The high note is not the only thing.”
Placido Domingo Quotes
“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.”
George Gershwin Quotes
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.”
Arthur O'Shaunessey Quotes
“We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou Quotes
“I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown Quotes
“A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.”
Mariah Carey Quotes
“Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes