R&b Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old r&b quotes, r&b sayings, and r&b proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul Richter
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance. Leo Tolstoy
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. Lotte Lehmann
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo
He who sings scares away his woes. Cervantes
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Alphonse De Lamartine
Soul music is timeless. Alicia Keys
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away. Maxwell
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato
Music is what feelings sound like. Anonymous
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. Link Wray
He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning
Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. Henry Ward Beecher
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert Green Ingersoll
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Laozi
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. Adele
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Music is rhythm of the universe meets rhythm of self. Terri Guillemet
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. Oscar Wilde
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub. Johann Sebastian Bach
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. Jill Scott