Quotes about Music
The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
— Walt Whitman
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
— Reba McEntire
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
— Dolly Parton
Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
— Chris Fabry
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
— Vincent van Gogh
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
— Martin Luther
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.
— CS Lewis
When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
— Gloria Gaither
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
— Albert Einstein
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
— Amy Grant