Music Quotes

"There's music in the sighing of a reed; there's music in the gushing of a rill; there's music in all things, if men had ears."

Lord Byron

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

Vincent van Gogh

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

"Creativity takes courage."

Henri Matisse

"All art is quite useless."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

Leo Tolstoy

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new."

"When people talk, listen completely."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh."

Audrey Hepburn

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

Charlie Chaplin

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."

Walt Disney

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Steve Jobs

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas A. Edison

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Will Durant

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

Vince Lombardi

"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it."

Jascha Heifetz

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."

Yo-Yo Ma