Quotes about music

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

Michael Jackson

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Rumi

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Billy Joel

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us – a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

Vincent Van Gogh

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Albert Einstein

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Oscar Wilde

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Frank Zappa

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.

Ray Charles

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix

It’s about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they’ve made love to my records so what I’ve delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it’s booty music!

Tyrese Gibson