Music Quotes

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Latin and soul music have been the traditional musical forms in Spanish Harlem; Latin music because it represents our own unique life-force, and soul because for better or worse our destinies are inextricably tied to that of the black nation insofar as we live, work, and die with it. In every slum in New York […]

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

I heard he sang a good song I heard he had a style And so I came to see him And listen for a while. And there he was this young boy A stranger to my eyes. Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song […]

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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.

See, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CD’s and burn ’em. Cause you know what? The musicians who made […]