Music
A collection of proverbs, quotes and sayings about music and musicians. If you can’t say it, sing it.

Music – Bandarban Bangladesh
A bell cricket is kept in its cage because of its song.
Japanese
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith Richards
A single tree makes no forest; one string makes no music.
Chinese proverb
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Albert Einstein
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
Laurie Colwin
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, Oh Lord why don't we?
Ebony and Ivory lyrics
Paul McCartney
Even the sharpest ear cannot hear an ant singing.
Sudanese
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger
I know it's only Rock & Roll, but I like it.
The Rolling Stones
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
Saoirse Ronan
If music be the food of love; play on.
William Shakespeare
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Zimbabwe proverb
You don't have to be perfect to enjoy life.
If you can't say it, sing it.
If you don't know the blues … there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
If you don't know the blues… there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
It's the singer, not the song.
The Rolling Stones
Keep a tree green in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese proverb
Move your neck according to the music.
Ethiopian proverb
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul Richter
Music is my first love.
Mandy Moore
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
Music is the color of sound.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
Leigh Hunt
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
Silence is music to a wise man.
Turkish proverb
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
Keith Richards
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier
There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.
Spanish proverb
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
Those who can't dance blame it on the music.
Jamaican proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Swedish proverb
To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation.
French proverb
When Strauss was writing his music, it was dance music. Now it's classical music. So how can you tell me that in 50 years' time film music will not turn out to be classical music?
Zbigniew Preisner
When the music changes, so does the dance.
African Proverb
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschef
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
Emma
Jane Austen
Writing a tune is like sculpting. You get four or five notes, you get one out and move one around, and you do a bit more and eventually, as the sculptor says, 'In that rock there is a statue, we have to go find it'.
John Williams.
You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
Madagascar
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Luciano Pavarotti
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
Keith Richards
You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
Mick Jagger
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