Music Quotes

"I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement."

"Listen to the reed flute, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations."

"Music may be called the sister of painting."

"A person should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Where words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

"Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, it expresses the deepest thoughts of life."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry van Dyke

"Music is our witness, and our ally. The beat is the confession which recognizes, changes and conquers time."

James Baldwin

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

Kurt Cobain

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

Janis Joplin

"I'm for anything that gets you through the night."

Frank Sinatra

"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."

Billie Holiday

"There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind."

Duke Ellington

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

Charles Mingus

"The real power of jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas with each other."

Wynton Marsalis

"My music is best understood by children and animals."

Igor Stravinsky

"Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise."

George Gershwin

"I'm not afraid of chaos. Chaos is a friend of mine."

Bob Dylan

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

Martha Graham

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique."

Martha Graham

"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."

Isadora Duncan

"Do it big, do it right and do it with style."

Fred Astaire

"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."

Vicki Baum

"When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that."

William Shakespeare

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

Jane Austen