Where words fail, music speaks. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. ~ Julie Andrews

All music is folk music I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ~Louis Armstrong

Music fathorms the sky. ~ Charles Baudelaire

When you leave the planet, yuo leave music behind. ~ Alex Van Halen

Music can change the world because it can change people. ~ Paul David Hewson

I'm composing and writing music, and I've got a concern in San Antonio in May. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I have a sweet tooth for song and music, this is my Polish sin. ~ Papa John Paul II

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ~ Georges Bizet

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, direct from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. ~ Johannes Brahms

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. one must not wish first to... ~ Albert Camus

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ~ John Lennon

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling frightened you'ii slip away. ~ Madonna

If for understanding someone you need to listen patiently his or her story, for understanding an interpreter means listening to his music. ~ Madalina Manole

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

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. they might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know... ~ Kylie Minogue

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music. ~ Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski

What is a soul (soul music) ? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~ Ray Charles

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. ~ Nat King Cole

Music is the silence between the notes. ~ Claude Debussy

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ~ Charles Gounod

What is this. It's music to get a brain seizure by. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light, then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ~ Rudolf Otto

If you life in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. it attracts women. It doesn't repel them. ~ Camille Paglia

If a melody sounds familiar, I know enough musical theory to head to another place. ~ Brad Paisley

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. ~ Brian De Palma

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performance. ~ Evan Parker

My favorite musical. I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there. ~ Trey Parker

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. ~ Michael Parkinson

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist. ~ Alan Parsons

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. ~ Dolly Parton

Great music is in a sense serene, it is certain of the values it asserts. ~ Rebecca West

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. ~ Andy Partridge

When I first began working on music in potrait orientation, it was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever had in Finale. ~ Robert Patterson

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

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

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. they scream. They yell. they do all sorts of wild things. ~ Minnie Pearl

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. ~ Edith Piaf

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. ~ Joseph Maurice Ravel

Why does God endow us with compssion ? ~ Frans Schubert

I adore art.. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream for my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. ~ Giuseppe Verdi

Music before all else and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air. ~ Paul Verlaine