Greatest Musician Quotes:

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

- Billy Joel

source: Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

topic: Music, Healing, Matter, Music Life, Love Heals

Where words fail, music speaks.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

topic: Inspirational, Music, Listening, Music Life, Music Therapy

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Music, Wisdom, Silence, Jazz And Life, Music Life

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

source: FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Music, Music Life, Soul Healing

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

topic: Inspirational, Music, Spiritual, Musical Life, Music Is Life

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Motivational, Music, Wisdom, Sounds Of Silence, Jazz And Life

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

source: Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

topic: Music, Wisdom, Philosophy, Music Life, Musical Life

Music gives a soul to the universe.

- Plato

topic: Music, Wings, Giving, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Music can change the world.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Music, Peace, World, Music Life, Music And Life

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Inspirational, Angel, Musical, Jazz And Life, Musical Life

Music can change the world because it can change people.

- Bono

topic: Inspirational, Change, Music, Music And Life, Inspirational Music

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

- Kanye West

source: Source: uproxx.com

topic: Musician, Booty, Freak, Greatest Musician

I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

- Ted Templeman

topic: Art, Player, Thinking, Musicianship, Guitar Player

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

- Olivier Messiaen

source: Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen (1976). “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen”, Stainer & Bell, Limited

topic: Bird, Hierarchy, Musician, Greatest Musician

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Powerful, Names, Mind, Album Covers, Greatest Musician

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

- Pat Metheny

topic: Play, Musician, Tunes, Greatest Musician

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

- Wynton Marsalis

topic: Stars, The End Of The Day, Trying, Pop Stars, Greatest Musician