Quotes About Music

62 quotes

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong

German composer

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

American singer-songwriter and actress

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

American singer-songwriter

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

German composer

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Russian, French, and American composer

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

German composer

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Austrian composer

With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love.

German composer

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.