6,548 Quotes About Music

It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

Every time you move, and every time you play a note, a piece of yourself is left behind.