Music Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

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

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Igor Stravinsky

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. Joseph Addison

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot

Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. Martin Luther.

I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. Woody Allen

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. Elvis Presley

If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out. Louis Armstrong

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. Thomas Beecham

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. Thomas Beecham

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years. Thomas Beecham

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. Maria Callas

Music will save the world. Pablo Casals

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals

My biggest kick in music – playing or writing – is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything. Duke Ellington

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it. Thomas Beecham

Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away. Thomas Beecham

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. Isaac Stern

Music is like making love: either all or nothing. Isaac Stern

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Steve Martin

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West

I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it’s always come first, but the music ain’t worth nothing if you can’t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for is to please the people. Louis Armstrong

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. Hector Louis Berlioz

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen? Victor Borge

All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music – the good and bad. I play the good kind. Louis Armstrong

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise Him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament. Igor Stravinsky