1. A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green
2. A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
3. Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! ~J. K. Rowling
4. All the sounds of the earth are like music. ~Oscar Hammerstein
5. And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. ~Sir Thomas Beecham
8. He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning
9. I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet
10. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. ~Martin Luther
11. I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. ~George Eliot
12. 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
13. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
14. If music be the food of love, play on. ~Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
15. If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ~Zimbabwe Proverb
16. In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. ~George Szell
17. In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
18. It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
19. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. ~Benjamin Britten
20. It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade
21. Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett
22. Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ~John Philip Sousa
23. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. ~Unknown
24. Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher
25. Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. ~Yehudi Menuhin
26. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
27. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. ~Victor Hugo
28. Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. ~Ludwig Van Beethoven
29. Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier
30. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
31. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde
32. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine
33. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
34. Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt
35. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~Plato
36. Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter
37. Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy
38. Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
39. Music is the vernacular of the human soul. ~Geoffrey Latham
40. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~Robert Fripp
41. Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle
42. Music is what feelings sound like. ~Unknown
43. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ~Charlie Parker
44. Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. ~Jean Baptiste Montegut
45. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius
46. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Red Auerbach
47. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
48. Music, when soft voices die -- Vibrates in the memory. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
49. Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan
50. My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar
51. Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. ~Henry Ward Beecher
52. Play the music, not the instrument. ~Unknown
53. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
54. The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
55. The history of a people is found in its songs. ~George Jellinek
56. The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. ~Jeffrey Tate
57. The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. ~Agnes de Mille
58. There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~M. Aumonier
59. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ~George Eliot
60. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ~George Eliot
61. There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill
62. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ~Lord Byron
63. What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden
64. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. ~Henry David Thoreau
65. Where words fail, music speaks. ~Hans Christian Andersen
66. Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ~Pat Conroy
67. Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. ~Edgar Yipsel