GRAND Music Mix

My primary Spotify playlist, “TheHaysWay Grand Music Mix” is officially finally living up to its name! After somewhere between 3-4 years working on it, I have gathered over 1,000 songs (that’s right, one GRAND–See what I did there?). In honor of the milestone, I felt it fitting to have a music-related post (which I will be making exactly 1,000 words long). Here is a list of some of the best all-time quotes about music, from some people you may have heard of (in alphabetical order by last name, in case you’re looking for a particular famous person) 🙂

 

• “I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” – Adele
• “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou
• “Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven’t felt.” – Steve Aoki
• “Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.” – Louis Armstrong
• “Without music, life would be a blank to me.” – Jane Austen
• “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” – Ludwig Van Beethoven
• “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” – Leonard Bernstein
• “Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” – Napoléon Bonaparte
• “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” – Colbie Caillat
• “Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen
• “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” – Confucius
• “I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” – Ice Cube
• “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” – Charles Darwin
• “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp
• “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” – Albert Einstein
• “Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.” – Lady Gaga
• “Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix
• “To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” – Michael Jackson
• “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” – Billy Joel
• “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John
• “Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.” – Olga Kurylenko
• “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
• “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” – Martin Luther
• “Music is therapy. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. I acts as medicine.” – Macklemore
• “Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson
• “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley
• “Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.” – Bruno Mars
• “Music inflames temperament.” – Jim Morrison
• “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”  – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• “Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.” – Yoko Ono
• “All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?” – Ozzy Osbourne
• “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” – Tom Petty
• “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
• “The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” – Psy
• “Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
• “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” – Robert Schumann
• “Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.” – Amanda Seyfried
• “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” – William Shakespeare
• “People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.” – Paul Simon
• “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky
• “That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.” – Harry Styles
• “Singing is just a feeling set to music.” – Carrie Underwood
• “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” – Kurt Vonnegut
• “Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” – Stevie Wonder

Sources:

https://www.cmuse.org/100-famous-and-inspirational-music-quotes/

https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/music