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Music Quotes


Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the soul of language.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music should be your escape.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

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