Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. -- Joseph Addison
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance. -- Louis Armstrong
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Berthold Auerbach
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Music can change the world. -- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. -- Leonard Bernstein
Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. -- James Brown
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. -- Thomas Carlyle
All music comes from God. -- Johnny Cash
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. -- Edgar Cayce
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. -- Ray Charles
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. -- Miles Davis
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. -- George Eliot
You are the music while the music lasts. -- T. S. Eliot
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. -- Jerry Garcia
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. -- Kahlil Gibran
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. -- Edgar Watson Howe
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. -- Victor Hugo
The history of a people is found in its songs. -- George Jellinek
Music is the vernacular of the human soul. -- Geoffrey Latham
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -- Walter J. Lippmann
Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. -- Hal A. Lingerman
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. -- Henry Miller
I started making music because I could. -- Alanis Morissette
Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. -- Alanis Morissette
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. -- Van Morrison
Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. -- Theodore Mungers
Without music life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. -- Charlie Parker
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. -- Elvis Presley
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. -- Lou Reed
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway. -- Lionel Richie
Music should never be harmless. -- Robbie Robertson
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. -- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
All music is important if it comes from the heart. -- Carlos Santana
Music is the key to the female heart. -- Johann G. Seume
The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. -- Bruce Springsteen
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. -- Bruce Springsteen
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. --George Szell
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
For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech. -- Unknown
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. -- Unknown
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing. -- Eddie Vedder
Music at its essence is what gives us memories. -- Stevie Wonder
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it. -- Ron Wood
Thanks to Danielle Hollister at EzineArticles.com for this list of Top 50 Music Quotations.
