Quotes about Music, page 10

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music

Music fathoms the sky.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about music

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about music

You are the music while the music lasts.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about music

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Quote by William Faulkner about music

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history

Quote by Kylie Minogue about music

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done

Quote by Franz Schubert about music

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Quote by Franz Schubert about music

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Quote by Franz Schubert about music

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Quote by Axel Munthe about music

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about music

Where words fail, music speaks.

Quote by Hans Christian Andersen about music

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling frightened you'll slip away.

Quote by Madonna about music

Music is the silence between the notes.

Quote by Claude Debussy about music

What is a soul( soul misic)? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Quote by Ray Charles about music

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Quote by John Lennon about music

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Quote by Giuseppe Verdi about music

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Quote by Edith Piaf about music

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.

Quote by Charles Gounod about music