Music Quotes

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

“I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“You can't take the sky from me.”
― Joss Whedon

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
― Frank Zappa

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
― Plato

“A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
― Robert Fanney

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
― Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
― John Keats

“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”
― Lady Gaga

“Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.”
― Roger Waters

“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists”
― Gerard Way

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”
― Jim Morrison

“So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
― Tori Amos

“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
and silently steal away.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry?”
― Saliva

“Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off”
― Gerard Way

“Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.”
― Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”
― Morrissey

“To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.”
― Morrissey

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
― François Truffaut

“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.”
― Morrissey

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
― Patti Smith

“Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto