Quotes on Music

"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

"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the key to the female heart"
-Johann G. Seume

"Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music."
-Sergei Rachmaninoff

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" -Geoffrey Latham

“When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely”
-Florent Schmitt (French Composer. 1870-1958)

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever"
-June Masters Bacher

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
-G K Chesterton

“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love”
-Louis-Hector Berlioz (French Composer and Critic. Conductor of the Romantic period, 1803-1869)


"Music is an ocean and I am a student. For a vocalist, voice practice is important. It has been my habit to learn the meaning of songs I have to sing and the correct pronunciation of each word," - M S Subbulakshmi: 'Nightingale' of Carnatic music



"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-Kahlil Gibran

"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

"The Magic of Music Lies not Just on Concord of Notes but More Like Ambrosia and Mannadew not Only on Those who Make the Music but on Those who Hear and Lifts Them to Seventh Heaven of Aesthetic Delight".
-Anon

"Music is Bliss" - Sudha Raghunathan, Carnatic Vocalist

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." -Thomas Carlyle
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
~ Red Auerbach

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body"
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman"
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below"
~ Joseph Addison

"Music is sounding mathematics" - Lebenitz

"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul"
-Unknown

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
-Victor Hugo

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
-Plato

“Music is love in search of a word.” -Thomas Carlyle

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"
-Charlie Parker

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"
-Aldous Huxley

"Music should come from the heart.
It should happen. That should be automatic and if you labour on creating music, it will not have soul.
'Likening music to an ``elegant flight of a fowl, gentle flowing of a stream, the spread of a fragrance, a cool breeze, when you apply your mind, you lose the charm of music.''
-Ilayaraja, Musician

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan