Music Quotes
203 quotes
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
"If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die."
"None but ourselves can free our minds."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
"Where words leave off, music begins."
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
"The only truth is music."
"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."
"Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."
"I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me."
"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."
"You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
"Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live."
"Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering."
"I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."
"Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?"
"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other."
"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."
"I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."
"I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power."
"Music is my higher power"
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
"Music is an outburst of the soul."
"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore."
"Life is but a dream for the dead."
"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!"
"I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?"
"If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal."
"The cat hair floated in the air like a sound vibration, and I plucked it like a guitar string. Sometimes I can be so musical I’m like a living love song."
"... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through..."
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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