Music Proverbs

Sayings about Music

An excellent compilation of proverbs and sayings about Music that convey meaningful lessons drawn from life experiences of various Nations, followed by quotations from the world's greatest authors and leaders.

Love begins with song and music and ends in a sea of tears. ~ Italian Proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance. ~ African Proverb

When girls whistle, the Holy Virgin cries. ~ Luxembourg Proverb

There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won't bring her to the window. ~ Spanish Proverb

Those who cant dance blame it on the music. ~ Jamaican Proverb

Move your neck according to the music. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation. ~ French Proverb

Silence is music to a wise man. ~ Turkish Proverb

The mouth is not sweetened by saying "Honey, honey." So the music, so the people. ~ Turkish Proverb

Music helps not the toothache. ~ Traditional Proverb

A silent mouth is musical. ~ Irish Proverb

Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone. ~ Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Music

Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschef

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~ Thomas Carlyle

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

If music be the food of love; play on. ~ William Shakespeare

Music fills the infinite between two souls. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde

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

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive. ~ Miley Cyrus

Music is only love looking for words. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

Only sick music makes money today. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ~ Pat Conroy

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~ Victor de LaPrade

The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. ~ William Wordsworth

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. ~ Author Unknown

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word father. ~ Lydia M. Child

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

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~ Leigh Hunt

Good music is very close to primitive language. ~ Denis Diderot

It is easier to understand a nation by listening to its music than by learning its language. ~ Author Unknown

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. ~ Sergei Rachmaninov

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ~ Joseph Addison

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~ Ronald Reagan

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ~ Aaron Copeland

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~ Oscar Wilde

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. ~ Henry Miller

Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine. ~ Pietro Mascagni

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ~ Robert Fripp

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ~ Samuel Johnson

Music is my first love. ~ Mandy Moore

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. ~ George Gershwin

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor. ~ Martin Luther

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. ~ Samuel Pepys

If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~ Mencius

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~ Nietzsche

When words leave off, music begins. ~ Heinrich Heine

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach

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

Music is an outburst of the soul. ~ Frederick Delius

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. ~ Louis-Hector Berlioz

All the sounds of the earth are like music. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Music is what life sounds like. ~ Eric Olson

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~ Gottfried Leibniz

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. ~ Noel Coward

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

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~ William P. Merrill

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ~ Van Morrison

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. ~ E. M. Cioran

What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~ John Dryden

Music is the poetry of the air. ~ Richter

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~ Frank Zappa

Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. ~ Walter Savage Landor

Where words fail, music speaks. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada

Music should never be harmless. ~ Robbie Robertson

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. ~ Plato

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ~ Mary Kay Ash

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Music is the color of sound. ~ Author unknown

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~ Robert Browning

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Music is love in search of a word. ~ Sidney Lanier

You are the music while the music lasts. ~ T.S. Eliot

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.~ John Christian Bovee

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. ~ Author Unknown

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. ~ Samuel Johnson

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ~ Sir Thomas Beecham

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~ Edward Elgar

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Life without music would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. ~ James Duffecy

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities. ~ Arthur Winter

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~ Leonard Bernstein

Music is the brandy of the damned. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.~ Bill Cosby

Music is the soul of language. ~ Max Heindel

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ~ Sydney Smith

Music is what feelings sound like. ~ Author Unknown

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ~ Samuel Butler

Life is a song. Love is the music. ~ Author Unknown

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 is a higher revelation than philosophy. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum! ~ Omar Khayyam

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ~ Ezra Pound

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. ~ Anaïs Nin

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. ~ Joseph Addison

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. ~ Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ~ Marcel Marceau

Music is the key to the female heart. ~ Johann G. Seume

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. ~ Sir Thomas Beecham

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~ Victor Hugo

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. ~ Frank Zappa

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

Music causes us to think eloquently. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ~ John Ruskin

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~ John A. Logan

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ~ Lewis Thomas

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~ Plato

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. ~ Billy Joel

You don't need any brains to listen to music. ~ Luciano Pavarotti

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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