“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
– Tom Petty
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
– Marilyn Manson
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” – Albert Einstein
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites
“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
“Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.”
― Elvis Costello
“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
― Pablo Casals
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp
“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Without music, life would be a mistake” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” – Michael Jackson
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― – Charles Darwin
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― – Charles Darwin
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” – Michael Jackson
“The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” – William Shakespeare
“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan