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

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo