Quotes about music

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

Elvis Presley

Don’t you worry, and don’t you hurry.’ I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Mark Twain

I don’t listen to music for fun. I ain’t got enough time for fun! I’m always busy writing my own music. I don’t try to compete or see what other people are doing.

Dolly Parton

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

John Lennon

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All of one’s life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

John Ruskin

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

David Bowie

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Gloria Estefan

Architecture is crystallized music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe