Music Sayings

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
- Jules Combarieu

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski

Life is a song. Love is the music.
- Anonymous

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
- Paul Simon

Music is Love in search of a word.
- Sidney Lanier

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- Robert Fripp

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
- George Gershwin

Music is like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
- Jean Baptiste Montegut

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
- John Armstrong

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
- William Green

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
- Jean Paul Richter

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
- Charlie Parker

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
- William Congreve

The man who has no music in himself; nor is moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils.
- William Shakespeare

Music’s the medicine of the mind.
- John A. Logan

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
- John Erskine