Music Quotes
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I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
Brad Soderberg
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Next to music beer was best.
Carson McCullers
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Make your own music. It can be done.
Michelle Shocked
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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun.
Bill Clinton
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Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
Lewis Capaldi
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
Paul Elmer More
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound
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My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
Paul Hindemith
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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
Sidney Lanier
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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
Harper Reed
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
Boyd K. Packer
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I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.
Colin Meloy
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
John Ruskin
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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
Michael Rapaport
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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
Martin Luther
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Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
Faris Badwan