Music Quotes

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

Beautiful, Black, Together

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Love, Else, Another

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

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau

Good, Feelings, Mysterious

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

Air, Sculpture, Type

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

Magic, Strongest

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Nature, Heart, Deep

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Said, Speech, Angels

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

Black, Said, Playing

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

Die, Until, Grow

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Words, Trying, Bother

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Thinking, Keep, Turn

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin

Teacher, Perfect, Order

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

Time, Nothing, Else

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

Life, Night, Moonlight

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Rocks, Bend, Oak

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Powerful, Words, Together

Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen

Words, Fail, Speaks

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Great, Food, Material

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Art, Language, Happens

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

Wise, Play, Musicians

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

Words, Off, Leave

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