
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him.Lee Kuan Yew
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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.Victor Hugo
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Muir
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.Tenzin Gyatso
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Gautama Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Gautama Buddha
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.Gautama Buddha
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something…Carl Jung
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.Chinese proverb
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.Lao Tzu
My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot; my heart is like an apple-tree whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit.Christina Rossetti
When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me.Christina Rossetti
We are two flowers upon a single stalk — the Hindu and the Muslim.Kazi Nazrul Islam
I sing the song of equality, where all barriers and differences have melted into one.Kazi Nazrul Islam
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.Elizabeth I
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life.John D. Rockefeller
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.Pele
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to play music.Pele
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.Vikram Sarabhai

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

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.Oscar Wilde