music quotes

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life. 

Music is Love in search of a word.  

 Music is the key to the female heart.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. 

Music is well said to be the speech of angels 

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. 

Music should never be harmless.

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

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. 

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. 

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems 

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. 

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have 

Where words fail, music speaks 

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. 

Without music life would be a mistake 

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. 

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. 

We enjoy playing with each other, which I think is a pretty important part of this. If we didn't, we'd have given it up a long time ago. The idea when we started was to take five people and keep 'em together no matter what and see what we could get out of it, and we've pretty much stuck to that plan.

t's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.

You got to get it while you can.

hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.

gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.

Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.