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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

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

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte