Music Quotes

Explore Hundreds of Music Quotes for Free

Easily scroll through musical quotes by clicking on “…(Next Quote)” below.  Or search for something more specific by using the “Search for:” section below.

Music Quotes

The aim and final end of all music is the Glory of God and the Refreshment of the Soul.J. S. Bach
… (Next Quote)

Quotes
    • 2
  • 2003, National Federation of Music Clubs
    • A
  • Adams, Douglas
  • Adams, John
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Anderson, Bryce W.
  • Anderson, Hans Christian
  • Andrews, Julie
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Aristotle
  • Armstrong, Louis
  • Arrau, Claudio
  • Arriola, Pepito
  • Ashkenazy, Vladimir
  • Asow, Meuller von
  • Attenborough, Sir David
  • Auerbach, Berthold
  • Aumonier, Minnie
  • Ayers, Roy
    • B
  • Bach, J. S.
  • Bachaus, Wilhem
  • Bacon, Ernst
  • Baker-Jordan, Dr. Martha
  • Baker-Jordan, Marth
  • Baker-Jordan, Martha, Dr.
  • Baker-Jordan, Martha
  • Beecham, Thomas
  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Berlioz, Hector
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Bernstein, Seymour
  • Bizet, Georges
  • Blacking, John
  • Blickenstaff, Marvin
  • Borge, Victor
  • Boulanger, Nadia
  • Brahms, Johannes
  • Brendel, Alfred
  • Britten, Benjamin
  • Browning, John
  • Browning, Robert
  • Brubeck, Dave
  • Bulwer Lytton, Edward
  • Bunt, Leslie
  • Busoni, Ferruccio
  • Busoni, Feruccio
  • Byron, Lord
    • C
  • Cage, John
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carreno, Teresa
  • Casals, Pablo
  • Chopin, Frederic
  • Chronister, Richard
  • Clark, Frances
  • Clementi, Muzio
  • Confucius
  • Congrave, William
  • Congreve, William
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Crandall, Joanne
  • Crosby, Bing
    • D
  • Debussy, Claude
  • de Lamartine, Alphonse
  • de Pachmann, Vladimir
  • Depp, Johnny
  • Doherty, Pete
  • Dreher, Diane
  • Duncan, Lawrence
  • Dvorak, Antonin
    • E
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Einstein, Alfred
  • Eliot, George
  • Eliot, Thomas
  • Ellington, Duke
  • Elliot (Mary Anne Evans), George
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
    • F
  • Fielden, Thomas
  • Flora van Grinsven, Mark Meerum Terwogt and
  • France, Emily
    • G
  • Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
  • Gach, Peter
  • Galamian, Ivan
  • Gaston, E. Thayer
  • George, Robbie
  • Gershwin, George
  • Gibran, Kahlil
  • Gieseking, Walter
  • Godowsky, Leopold
  • Grieg, Edvard
  • Grimm, Baron
    • H
  • Haddon, Walter
  • Hall, Edward T.
  • Hambourg, Mark
  • Hammerstein II, Oscar
  • Hancock, Herbie
  • Harris, Robert
  • Harrison, Sidney
  • Hasse, Johann Adolf
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph
  • Heine, Heinrich
  • Hendrix, Jimi
  • Heyman, Katherine Ruth
  • Hindemith, Paul
  • Hoffman, Josef
  • Hofmann, Josef
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Honegger, Arthur
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
  • Horowitz, Vladimir
  • Howe, Edgar Watson
  • Hubbard, Kin
  • Hugo, Victor
  • Hummel, Johann
  • Hutchenson, Earnst
  • Huxley, Aldous
  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard
    • I
  • Ives, Charles
    • J
  • James, Willam
  • James Hertel, Hamid Hekmat and
  • Jan Kochanski, Wladimir
  • Jessop, Craig
  • Johnson, James Weldon
  • Johnson, Samuel
  • Joplin, Scott
    • K
  • Kawabata, Yasunari
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • Kodaly, Zoltan
    • L
  • Landowska, Wanda
  • Latham, Geoffrey
  • Leginska, Ethel
  • Lehrer, Tom
  • Lennon, John
  • Leschetizky, Theodor
  • Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
  • Liszt, Franz
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Longsfellow, Henry
  • Lucas, Elizabeth
  • Luther, Martin
    • M
  • Mahler, Gustav
  • Manson, Marilyn
  • Marsha Maslan, Joan Allekote and
  • Matthay, Tobias
  • MCartney, Paul, Sir
  • McCartney, Paul, Sir
  • Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Mikuli, Karol
  • Milton, John
  • Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Muir, John
  • Murakami, Haruki
  • Musicale, Revue
    • N
  • Neuhaus, Heinrich
  • Newberry, David B.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
    • O
  • Orff, Carl
  • Ortiz, PhD, John M.
    • P
  • Paderewski, Ignace
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan
  • Pepys, Samuel
  • Petri, Egon
  • PhD, John M. Ortiz,
  • Plato
  • Plato
  • Poole, William
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Presley, Elvis
  • Proverb, Chinese
  • Pullman, Philip
  • Punam Anand, Morris Holbrook and
    • R
  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei
  • Randolph, David
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Richter, Sviatoslav
  • Rieder, Ambrose
  • Rorem, Ned
  • Rosenthal, Moriz
  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
  • Rowling, J.K.
  • Rubenstein, Arthur
    • S
  • Saint-Saens, Camille
  • Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), George
  • Saroyan, William
  • Scarantino, Barbara Anne
  • Schelling, Ernest
  • Schnabel, Arthur
  • Schoenberg, Arnold
  • Schonberg, Harold C.
  • Schopenhaurer, Arthur
  • Schumann, Clara
  • Schumann, Robert
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Shelley, Percy
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Simon, Abbey
  • Simone, Nina
  • Sousa, John Philip
  • Spaeth, Sigmund
  • Spencer, Herbert
  • Spinoza, Benedict
  • Springsteen, Bruce
  • Stern, Isaac
  • Stevens, Wallace
  • Stewart, R.J.
  • Stokowski, Leopold
  • Storr, Anthony
  • Strauss, Claude Levi
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Sullivan, Arthur
  • Suzuki, Shinichi
  • Szell, George
    • T
  • Tate, Jeffrey
  • Taylor, James
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thomas, Lewis
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Tolstoy, Leo
  • Twain, Mark
    • U
  • Unknown, Author
  • Ustinov, Peter
    • V
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig
  • Verlaine, Paul
  • von Bulow, Hans
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
  • Vuong, Ocean
    • W
  • Wadsworth, William
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Walker, Alan
  • Walsh, Peter
  • Ward, William Arthur
  • Watts, Andre
  • Welk, Lawrence
  • Whiteman, Paul
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughn
  • Williams, Tenessee
  • Wolf, Hugo
  • Wonder, Stevie
  • Wordsworth, William
    • Y
  • Yeats, William Butler
    • How can sweet, harmonious, melody exist in the midst of modern din - the clamor of traffic, social commotion, emotional confusion, noise pollution? Our inner music is inaudible. To hear it, we need to let go, until we arrive at the silence.John M. Ortiz, PhD
    The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology Using Music to Change Your Life
    … (Next Quote)

    Provide students with a fun and exciting way to practice elementary theory terms.  This crossword puzzle includes 10 early elementary music terms and definitions — tie, whole note, repeat sign, quarter note, half note, bar line, slur, double bar line, measure and staff.

    DOWNLOAD