A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Benjamin Disraeli

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Elvis Presley

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Sir Thomas Beecham

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
Henry David Thoreau

Music is what feelings sound like.

Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
Dom�nico Cieri Estrada

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven

If music be the food of love; play on.
William Shakespeare

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Red Auerbach

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

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

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
Mencius

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness 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

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
Michael Torke

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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.
B. B. King

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

He who sings scares away his woes.
Cervantes

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley