Quotes by Music Lovers

Music before everything else ... Music again and forever! - Paul Verlaine


Music ... is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. - Billy Joel


Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G. K. Chesterton


The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. - Henry David Thoreau


Music is an intellectual or sensual pleasure, according to the temperament of him who hears it. - Thomas de Quincey


Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. - Samuel Johnson


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


My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther


Intelligence is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom,
wisdom is not truth,
truth is not beauty,
beauty is not love,
love is not music.
Music is best. - Frank Zappa


There are two means of refuge from the misery of life, music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer


Music is the nearest at hand, the most orderly, the most delicate, and the most perfect, of all bodily pleasures; it is also the only one which is equally helpful to all the ages of man. - John Ruskin


Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. - Gioacchino Rossini