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Music Quotes


In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Bruce Beresford
Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

William Congreve
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Lao Tzu
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato
Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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

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

Paul Simon
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jacques Barzun
Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul
Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Thomas Fuller
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Aaron Carter