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Quotes About Music

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
~ Ken Kesey
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
~ Georg Solti
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
~ Karl Barth
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
~ Nanci Griffith
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
~ Quincy Jones
It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
~ Benjamin Zander
I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.
~ Carrie Underwood
Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.
~ Lana Del Rey
My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
~ Paul Hindemith
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
~ J. Cole
Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
~ Jay-Z
Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach
~ Mauricio Kagel
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
~ Pablo Casals
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.
~ Timbaland
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
~ Linda Ronstadt
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
~ Rick Wakeman
I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.
~ Stan Walker
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
~ Joe Cocker
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
~ Anton Seidl
I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'
~ Tom Waits
I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.
~ Johnny Cash