Famous Music Quotations
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. – Eddie Van Halen
Music… is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits. – Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins
Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. – Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. – George Carlin
Where words leave off, music begins. – Heinrich Heine
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. – Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. – John Keats
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ― Richard Nixon
