Quotes referencing music; from famous actors, to academic geniuses, to world renowned authors and the music maestros themselves.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

Johnny Depp

"Life without music is inconceivable to me"

“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

“When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The seven colours of the light spectrum correspond to the seven musical notes in a diatonic scale (D-E-F-G-A-B-C)

Isaac Newton

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

Victor Hugo

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

Jane Austen

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

Louis Armstrong

"If you want to call yourself a composer, then you follow every single step of the instrumentation."

"They're all my children... every score I've done"

Ennio Morricone

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare

"Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist".

David Bowie