Sayings and Quotes

These are some inspirational quotes on Music.

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
~Sergei Rachmaninov

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley,

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
~ Florent Schmitt

Where words fail, music speaks.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
~Bob Marley

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
~Frank Zappa

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
~ Miles Davis

I’d like to get something together – like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I’d be happy.
~ Jimi Hendrix

” The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wants…the soul waits.”

“Well, the going rate for change is not cheap. Big ideas are expensive.”

This is a Bono Quote on God: “All the best songs are co-written by God, y’know!”

“Celebrity is currency, so I wanted to use mine effectively.”
This is a celebrity quote by Bono.

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

“I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will bleed into one.”

“What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation – a toast to God!”

“We’re not here today for a victory lap; we’re here to pick up the pace. Because AIDS is outrunning us,”

“Americans, Irish people, are good at charity. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who can’t afford it. But justice is a higher standard.”
~Bono on Charity

“I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.”

“There are many side roads and back streets to rock ‘n’ roll, and most of us get lost down them at times.”

“I’m confident that President Bush has a real feeling for the AIDS pandemic. Essentially, what we’re asking for is a kind of Marshall Plan for Africa.”
~Bono is an activist on the HIV and AIDS issue.

“Home, hard to know what it is if you’ve never had one. Home, I can’t say where it is but I know I’m going.”

“One love, one blood, one life. You got to do what you should. One life with each other sisters, brothers. One life but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other”

“But I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’d be in deep s—. It doesn’t excuse my mistakes, but I’m holding out for Grace.”

“I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will bleed into one.”

“I’m not in a position to be seen as a spokesman for a generation. I mean, how can you be a spokesman of a generation if you’ve nothing to say, other than ‘Help!’”

“There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than to put them out.”

“When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.”

“The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept”

“Always do whatever’s next”

“When someone is impatient and says, “I haven’t got all day,” I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”

“One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor”

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

“Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it’s because at the moment they’re not actually dying.”

“If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!”

“There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.”

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands”