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Quotes About Music

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
~ Duane Allman
Music really isn't supposed to be perfect. It's all about people relating to each other and doing something that's really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
~ Tom Petty
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~ Edith Sitwell
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
~ Franz Liszt
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music
~ Matsuo Basho
When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.
~ Joseph Haydn
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
~ George Balanchine
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
~ Mika
If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
~ Hans Zimmer
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.
~ Duke Ellington
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
~ Frederic Chopin
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
~ Jack Brymer
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.
~ Sayyid Qutb
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
~ Burning Spear
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.
~ Waylon Jennings
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
~ Sergei Prokofiev
I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.
~ Matthew Healy
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
~ Willie Nelson
Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.
~ Erik Satie
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
~ Donna Summer