music Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

138 music Quotes
“Music is what feelings sound like.”
Angela Monet Quotes
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
Sergei Rachmaninov Quotes
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland Quotes
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo Quotes
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”
Plato Quotes
“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.”
Edgar Watson Howe Quotes
“Music is love in search of a word.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Quotes
“But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and far away, Despising doleful dumps. - Unattributed Author,”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England"
“Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young; Bug all the tune that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away." - Unattributed Author,”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England"
“Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (st. 4)
“[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.”
Conrad Potter Aiken (used pseudonym Samuel Jeake, Jr.) Quotes
Source: at a musical concert
“Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.”
John Armstrong Quotes
Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 512)
“That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes
Source: Light of Asia (bk. IV, l. 418)
“Music tells no truths.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast)
“Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”
Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
Source: about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
“Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.”
John Codrington Bampfylde Quotes
Source: Sonnet in Praise of Delia
“If music and sweet poetry agree.”
Richard Barnfield Quotes
Source: Sonnet
“Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Welcome Me Home
“I'm saddest when I sing.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: You think I have a merry heart
“Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)
“We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXXVII, v. 2)
“God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.”
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Quotes
Source: Music
“The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.”
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Quotes
Source: Music
“"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.”
Rev. James Bramston Quotes
Source: Man of Taste, first line quoted from Prior
“And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes
Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. IX)