Quotes About Music

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
― George Carlin

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
― Nick Hornby

“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.”
― Taylor Swift

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland