Quotes about Music
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth
— Pope Benedict XVI
Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.
— Barack Obama
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
— Barack Obama
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
— Khalil Gibran
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
— Dolly Parton
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.
— Chris Tomlin
Music religious heat inspires / It wakes the soul, and lifts it high / And wings it with sublime desires / And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
— Joseph Addison
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
— Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
— Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison