Quotes about Music
Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
— Danny Boyle
I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
— Elton John
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
— Victor Hugo
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
— Henry David Thoreau
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
— Martin Luther
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
— George Eliot