Music Quotes

"Such harmony is in immortal souls."

William Shakespeare

"How sour sweet music is, when time is broke and no proportion kept!"

William Shakespeare

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

John Keats

"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more."

William Wordsworth

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all."

Emily Dickinson

"I sing the body electric."

Walt Whitman

"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry."

Edgar Allan Poe

"The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child."

Kahlil Gibran

"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless."

"I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

Pablo Picasso

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"Creativity is just connecting things."

Steve Jobs

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

Bob Dylan

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

Leonard Cohen

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."

Freddie Mercury

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

Michael Jackson

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

Johnny Cash

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside."

Elvis Presley

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

Louis Armstrong