Music And Life Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old music and life quotes, music and life sayings, and music and life proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it. Chet Atkins
Works of art make rules, rules do not make works of art. Claude Debussy
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. Dmitri Shostakovich
I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. Franz Liszt
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. George Eliot
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. Haruki Murakami
Where words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau
Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Igor Stravinsky
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? Jane Swan
Music is the medicine of the mind. John Logan
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski
Music comes to me more readily than words. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! Maria August von Trapp
Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. Maya Angelou
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. Mickey Hart
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. Pete Seeger