Cool Music Quotes to Share and Enjoy

So many wise people over the ages were either musicians or music enthusiasts! Is it any wonder that there are a number of cool music quotes to share and enjoy?

Whether you find inspiration, comfort, strength, happiness — or all of these — quotes about music can bring a song to your heart and a spring in your step!

I’d love to share a few more of my favorite music quotes!

Lovely inspiration from nature and music

“I call architecture frozen music” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”  – Thomas Carlyle

“I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.” – Aretha Franklin

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” – William Congreve

Nature sings to us in gorgeous colors (image from treyevan on Flickr)

“Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” – Martin Luther

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” – Truman Capote

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” – Richard Milhouse Nixon

Love and music… (image from suneko on Flickr)

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You are the music while the music lasts.” – T.S. Eliot

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”- Oscar Wilde