W. H. Auden - Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Thomas Fuller - Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Duke Ellington - The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Billy Wilder - He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
George Thorogood - I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
Dizzy Gillespie - I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Lesley Garrett - That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Ludwig van Beethoven - Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Billy Strayhorn - All music is beautiful.
John Ruskin - Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Jacques Barzun - Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Mickey Hart - There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Leo Tolstoy - Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Maurice Ravel - The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Keith Richards - You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
Richard M. Nixon - If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Paul Simon - Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Missy Elliott - Music should be your escape.
Billy Sheehan - Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Bryan Ferry - But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Gustav Mahler - If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Thomas Carlyle - Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Herbie Hancock - Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Hans Christian Andersen - Where words fail, music speaks.
Victor Hugo - Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Jean Paul - Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jimi Hendrix - Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Berthold Auerbach - Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Marilyn Manson - Music is the strongest form of magic.
Dick Dale - Every song is like a painting.
William Shakespeare - If music be the food of love, play on.
Aldous Huxley - After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Edgar Winter - Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Psy - The world's most famous and popular language is music.
Adele - I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Dick Clark - Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Bono - Music can change the world because it can change people.
Sidney Lanier - Music is love in search of a word.
Ludwig van Beethoven - Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Phil Lesh - There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
Mary Kom - Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.
John Astin - My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
Lisa Whelchel - I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
George Carey - And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
Robert Martin - Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Brendan Rodgers - You always want to win games and to develop the team, so it's very important that you have encouragement from your fans.
Lucy Dacus - A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking.
Patti Smith - I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
Hubert de Givenchy - Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.
Charles B. Rangel - Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.