A collection of proverbs, quotes and sayings about music and musicians. If you can’t say it, sing it.
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The only truth is music.... Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat.
Jack KerouacThere is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie AumonierThere is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Thorin
There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.
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 WoodThose who can't dance blame it on the music.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation.
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 PreisnerWhen the music changes, so does the dance.
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheWithout music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat ConroyWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
Jane AustenSource: Emma
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 WilliamsYou blows who you is.
Louis ArmstrongYou can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Ken RobinsonYou can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Luciano PavarottiYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
Keith RichardsYou 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