Musician Love Quotes:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

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

topic: Food, Unrequited Love, Romantic Love, Jazz And Life, Music Life

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

- Bob Marley

topic: Funny, Music, Wisdom, Love Freedom, Jamaican Music

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

topic: Mean, Love Is, Sorrow, Music Life, Music Is Life

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Music, Eye, Heart, Music Life, Music And Life

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

topic: Love, Marriage, Flower, Composing Music, Lofty

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

source: Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

topic: Strength, Music, Beauty, Music Life, Musical Life

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Musician, Lines, Bottom, Musician Love

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!

- George Benson

topic: Music, Play, People, Montgomery, Musician Love

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Love Picture, Sunset, Musician, Musician Love, Love Poetry

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Love, Artist, Power, Musician Love, Greater Power

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

- Paul Banks

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Musician, Type, Musician Love