Music Quotes

These 36 quotes on music come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. — Lee Kuan Yew
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him.
Lee Kuan Yew
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. — Rabindranath Tagore
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
Oliver Sacks
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. — Wayne Dyer
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
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