All music is organized noise.
Ralf Hutter

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

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is a moral law, it gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato

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

What every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
Terry Pratchett

Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and
make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.
John Lennon

Music ... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

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

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease;
and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Plutarch

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry

Have another drink and just listen to the music.
Charles de Lint, Forests of the Heart

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

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 understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

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

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites--opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity--where energies flow smoothly in one direction--there will be much doing but no music.
Eric Hoffer

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

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

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E.Y. Harbug

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

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

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le Guin