Quotes about 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."

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"Music is the strongest form of magic."

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

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

"Music is love in search of a word."

"I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of."

"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful."

"Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story."

"Every song is like a painting."

"When words leave off, music begins."

"'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it."

"I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

"I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime."

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."

"If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

"I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion."

"When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar."

"Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was."

"We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God."

"I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night."

"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it."

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

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children."

"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."