Music Quotes

  • A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens.If it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly.To scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
    ~ Charles Edward Ives
  • Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
    ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
  • Are we not formed, as notes of music are,For one another, though dissimilar?
    ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Country music is three chords and the truth.
    ~ Harlan Perry Howard
  • Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
    ~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
  • Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
    ~ James Henry Leigh Hunt
  • Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
    ~ John Philip Sousa
  • The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life... the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.
    ~ Richard Baker
  • Life is one grand, sweet song,so start the music.
    ~ Ronald Reagan
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