Music Quotes (4,639 quotes)

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
―Leonard Bernstein

“Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”
[Quentin Tarantino on media criticisms of violence in his movies]
―Quentin Tarantino

“Music is a safe kind of high.”
―Jimi Hendrix

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”
―Bob Marley

“It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.”
[On the music of Talking Heads, from Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums]
―David Byrne

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
―Louis Armstrong

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
―Aldous Huxley

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
―Plato

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
―Lao Tzu

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
―Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
―Maya Angelou

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
―Bob Marley

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