Quotations on Music
1. Where words fail, music speaks.
2. Music’s a good thing, It calms the beast in the man. -- Joseph Stalin
3. Without music, life would be a mistake. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ― Victor Hugo
5. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ― Robert Fripp
6. Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ― Hans Christian Andersen
7. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ― Aldous Huxley
8. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. ― Plato
9. Music is the universal language of mankind. ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11. Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. ― John Lennon
12. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ― Lao Tzu
13. Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ― John Ruskin
14. Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ― Thomas Carlyle
15. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ― Thomas Fuller
16. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ― Bob Marley
17. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran
18. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
19. “Music is life itself.” – Louis Armstrong
20. Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. John Paul Friedrich Richter
21. If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Vera Nazarin
22. Love is friendship set to music. Jackson Pollock
23. Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
24. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Alphonse de Lamartine
25. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. Oscar Wilde
26. “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark
27. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. Thomas Fuller
28. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
29. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley
30. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius
31. Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Anderson
32. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? Jane Swan
33. “Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
34. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert G. Ingersoll
35. Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. Josh Homme
36. A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Guy de Maupassant
37. Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza
38. Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. Henry Ward Beecher
39. Without music, life would be a blank to me. Jane Austen
40. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. Sarah Dessen
Quotations about Quotations
1. Life itself is a quotation. (Jorge Luis Borges)
2. In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. (Evelyn Waugh)
3. To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. (Charles Edward Montague)
4. I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love. (Peter James)
5. A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
6. Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything. (André Malraux)
7. Quotations express your life experience. (Jay Doll)
8. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. (Ambrose Bierce)
9. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
10. In quoting others, we cite ourselves. (Julio Cortázar)
11. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
12. A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux
13. I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers
14. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D'Israeli
15. Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
16. An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
17. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce
18. Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. Evelyn Waugh