Music Quotes

51 quotes from Music thinkers

I was born with a natural inclination for music.

Antonio Vivaldi

Music

I have nothing to say and I am saying it.

John Cage

Music

I don't think of myself as a minimalist. I think of myself as a person who writes music that is repetitive.

Philip Glass

Music

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Music

I am a simple Czech musician, and I have no pretensions to be anything else.

Antonín Dvořák

Music

Though I am a great lover of music, I am not a great lover of musicians.

Felix Mendelssohn

Music

My lord, I write better when I have money.

Josquin des Prez

Music

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

David Bowie

Music

There's no such thing as a wrong note; some are just more right than others.

Thelonious Monk

Music

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

Music

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

Aretha Franklin

Music

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Ray Charles

Music

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

Music

The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine?

Frank Sinatra

Music

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Music

The folk music of the various peoples is merely a different dialect of the same musical language.

Béla Bartók

Music

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg

Music

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

Music

My language is understood all over the world.

Joseph Haydn

Music

I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wish to make them better.

George Frideric Handel

Music