Music Quotes

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

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

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

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche