Quotes about music

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Khalil Gibran

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It’s fragile up there.

Will.i.am

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music – that would be rest.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Confucius

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

My people had used music to soothe slavery’s torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Lady Gaga

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

A telephone subscriber here may call up and talk to any other subscriber on the Globe. An inexpensive receiver, not bigger than a watch, will enable him to listen anywhere, on land or sea, to a speech delivered or music played in some other place, however distant.

Nikola Tesla