"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