Great word about music

List of best quotes about music.

These music quotes are from the composers and some well-known people.

Check out the famous and inspirational music quotes below:

1. “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ―  Ludwig van Beethoven
2. “Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
3. “I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey
4. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato
5. “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan
6. “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
7. “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith Richards
8. “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
9. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley
10. “The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac
11. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer
12. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy
13. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen
14. “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare
15. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou
16. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley
17. “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ― W.H. Auden
18. “Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
19. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ― Victor Hugo
20. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy
21. “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― Charles Darwin
22. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
23. “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
24. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse
26. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
27. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ― Johnny Depp
28. “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
29. “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski
30. “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein
31. “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits
32. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga
33. “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning
34. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon
35. “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli
36. “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”  ― Frank Zappa
37. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
38. “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams
39. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”  ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
40. “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”― Oscar Wilde
41. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ― Frank Zappa
42. “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
43. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” ― Marilyn Manson
44. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ― Robert Fripp
45. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran
46. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ― Lao Tzu
47. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp
48. “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
49. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” ― Frederick Delius
50. “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ― Edith Sitwell
51. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen
52. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
53. “Music is my higher power” ― Oliver James
54. “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.” ― Lois Lowry
55. “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot
56. “Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo
57. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ― Martin Luther
58. “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
59. “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ― George Eliot
60. “Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it” ― John Lennon
61. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
62. “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White
63. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian Bach
64. “Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
65. “People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” ― Michael Jackson
66. “The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…” ― Christina Westover
67. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono
68. “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare
69. “I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein
70. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” ― Truman Capote
71. “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” ― Plato
72. “Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ― Pat Conroy
73. “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” ― G.K. Chesterton
74. “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ― Freddie Mercury
75. “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim
76. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ― Frank Zappa
77. “Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
78. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..” ― Pablo Casals
79. “Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.” ― Lauren Oliver
80. “If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian
81. “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” ― Chuck Klosterman
82. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” ― Ingmar Bergman
83. “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami
84. “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.” ― Charles Hart
85. “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
86. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
87. “It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts. ” ― Nic Sheff
88. “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
89. “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” ― William Shakespeare
90. “To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” ― Michael Jackson
91. “Love is friendship set to music.” ― Jackson Pollock
92. “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
93. “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ― Colbie Caillat
94. “But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness” ― John Green
95. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ― Robert Schumann
96. “Music, my rampart and my only one.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
97. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” ― Leonard Bernstein
98. “Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte
99. “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ― Anna Akhmatova
100. “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

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Allow these music quotes to relieve your stress and influence you to have a better mood throughout the day.

Music is a unique form of art. It allows us to express our emotions and creativity through beautiful notes, melodies, and lyrics. 

It can influence and exert a substantial effect on us, making music a compelling art that helps us in so many ways.

So, if you need anything that you can relate to, make you happy, or alter your mood, feel free to read and reflect on our collection below!

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1. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson 

2. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

3. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley 

4. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 

5. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo 

6. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton 

7. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” – Kahlil Gibran 

8. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato 

9. “Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

10. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp 

Famous Quotes About Music

11. “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot

12. “I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” – Adele

13. “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman.” – Ludwig Van Beethoven

14. “Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” – Shania Twain

15. “Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen

16. “The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” – Psy

17. “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach

18. “Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” – Edgar Winter

19. “Music is the great uniter—an incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” – Sarah Dessen

20. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” – Confucius

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Inspirational Music Quotes

21. “Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” – Emory Austin

22. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John

23. “Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” – Josh Homme

24. “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” – Haruki Murakami

25. “Where words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine

26. “It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.” – Nina LaCour

27. “Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.” – Cecilia Bartoli

28. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” – Truman Capote

29. “Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” – Aretha Franklin

Deep Quotes About Music

30. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” – Maria Von Trapp 

31. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

32. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius

33. “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Jean-Paul

34. “Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

35. “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.” – Anonymous

36. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” – Martin Luther

37. “What music appeals to us, it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.” – Emil Cioran

38. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp

39. “Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.” – Thomas Beecham

40. “When the pain penetrates, the music resonates.” – Anonymous

41. “Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” – Martin Luther

42. “Music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.” – Andres Segovia

43. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau

Short Music Quotes

44. “I think that music has an endless life.” – Anne Dudley

45. “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” – Stephen Sondheim

46. “Music is like a huge release of tension.” – James Taylor

47. “Music, my rampart and my only one.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

48. “My music is a luxury.” – Lana Del Rey

49. “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark

50. “Music gives color to the air of the moment.” – Karl Lagerfeld

51. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

52. “Love is friendship set to music.” – Jackson Pollock

53. “Music is my higher power.” – Oliver James

54. “Music—what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” – Maria August Von Trapp

55. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy

56. “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

57. “Music is healing. Music holds things together.” – Prince

58. “As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” – Martin Luther

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Quotes on Music and Life

59. “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

60. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.” – Jane Austen

61. “Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

62. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninov

63. “Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference.” – Herbie Hancock

64. “Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” – Amit Ray

65. “Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

66. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono

67. “To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” – Michael Jackson

68. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” – Osho

69. “Music is not take it or leave it; music is life or death!” – Joss Stirling

Interesting Music Quotes and Sayings

70. “Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.” – Jacques Barzun

71. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

72. “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.” – Sun Tzu

73. “The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” – Bruce Springsteen
74. “Those who wish to sing always find a song.” – Anonymous

75. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals

76. “Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.” – Eddie Van Halen

77. “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music, and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer

78. “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” – Paul Simon

79. “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” – Yip Harburg

80. “It’s pretty cool to see how far music can take you.” – Luke Bryan

81. “There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” – Edward Elgar

Quotes About Music and Love

82. “Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves—which is the same thing nowadays.” – Oscar Wilde

83. “Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.” – Orson Scott Card

84. “If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.” – Pete Doherty

85. “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” – Billy Joel

86. “I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.” – James Taylor

87. “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” – Colbie Caillat

88. “Music is an expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.” – Stephen Gaskin

Music Quotes That You Won’t Forget

89. “Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” – Joshua Logan

90. “Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.” – Jane Siberry

91. “Music is really driving my whole life.” – Ariana Grande

92. “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” – W.H. Auden

93. “When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.” – John Coltrane

94. “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland

95. “It really matters what you listen to. Select music that will strengthen your spirit.” – Russell M. Nelson

96. “Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” – Stevie Wonder

97. “Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.” – Bill Walton

98. “The day you open your mind to music, you’re halfway to opening your mind to life.” – Pete Townshend

99. “All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” – Jean Cocteau

100. “This will be our reply to violence—to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” – Leonard Bernstein

Music Quotes to Make You Appreciate It Even More

101. “Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.” – Ville Valo

102. “Music will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

103. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

104. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

105. “The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac

106. “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

107. “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” – Jane Swan

108. “When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” – Frank Ocean

109. “And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean.” – Stephen Chbosky

Music Quotes on How Influential It Can Be to Us

110. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.” – Taylor Swift

111. “The market didn’t define the music; the music defined the market.” – Charlie Hunter

112. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

113. “Music—that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” – Billie Joe Armstrong

114. “Ah, music—a magic beyond all we do here!” – J.K. Rowling

115. “Music changes and I’m gonna change right along with it.” – Aretha Franklin

116. “I lose myself in music because I can’t be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.” – Robert Smith

117. “The power of music makes all the difference to me with motivation throughout the day.” – Paul Brodie

118. “I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” – William James

119. “Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before the speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

120. “Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.” – Dimebag Darrell

121. “If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.” – Lauren Myracle

Music Quotes That Will Make You Chuckle

122. “Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” – Thomas Fuller

123. “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” – G.K. Chesterton

124. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” – Frank Zappa

125. “You are the music while the music lasts.” – T.S. Eliot

126. “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” – Freddie Mercury

Music Quotes About What It Can Symbolize for Many People

127. “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” – Keith Richards

128. “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” – Modest Mouse

129. “Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.” – Victoria Wood

130. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

131. “Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” – Pat Conroy

132. “Music should be your escape.” – Missy Elliott

133. “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” – Jason Mraz

134. “I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” – Kenny Rogers

135. “My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a foolish thing to say that, but when I know facts, I can say facts. My music will go on forever.” – Bob Marley

136. “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heartstrings. It acts as medicine.” – Macklemore

137. “Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.” – Elie Wiesel

138. “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” – Hannah Harrington

139. “Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness, a message of love, a message of unity.” – Stephen Marley

140. “Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.” – Eric Clapton

141. “Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.” – Gene Simmons

Music Quotes That’ll Drive You to Make Your Mark in the World

142. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Arthur O’Shaughnessy

143. “You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.” – David Byrne

144. “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” – Kurt Vonnegut

145. “It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.” – Sivamani

146. “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” – Richard M. Nixon

147. “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” – Charles Hart

148. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” – Robert Schumann

149. “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

150. “The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” – Roy Ayers

Does Music Help You Express Yourself?

Most of us consider music as our escape. It helps us get out of problematic situations, loneliness, or even heartbreaks. 

We also consider it our best friend—something that is always for us no matter what or how we feel. Each and every note of the songs we listen to makes us think we are not alone. Because of music, we know that there is something that we can run to when we want to let out the burden we feel inside. 

But, music is not only for those who are feeling down. Music is for everyone! Whether you feel sad, happy, in love, heartbroken, or lost, there’s music that you can relate to.

So, what are you waiting for? Get your phones and put your favorite music on! 

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Can you imagine what your life would look like without music? For most of us, living without all those wonderful songs and compositions is simply unimaginable. In fact, to almost all of us, music is a central element of life. Just like a good soundtrack accompanies a wonderful movie, music accompanies you throughout your entire life. During the ups and downs of life, there will always be those masterpieces that fully describe what you’re feeling at the present moment. There is music that lifts you up when you’re sad and music that keeps you going despite all the difficulties. Motivational music can help you reach the next level and instills a feeling of courage and hope during times of despair. In short, music truly is something magical. It’s therapy for the soul. To celebrate the power of music, we’ve compiled the following collection of inspiring quotes about music. These are the wonderful quotes that beautifully articulate the life-changing benefits of music.

The power of music lies in its ability to quickly elicit a wide range of emotions. Even further, it’s very likely that you associate a specific song to any given period in your life. Sometimes, it even feels as if one particular song has captured all the wonderful (and sometimes also sad) emotions that you’ve experienced during this intense time in your life.

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

As such, listening to these wonderful songs over and over again will almost instantly bring back all the joyful feelings and memories of that moment. Throughout the course of many years, there will be more and more beautiful songs that become part of the soundtrack of your life.

Aside from eliciting positive emotions, music can also boost your mental well-being. Unsurprisingly, the right song at the right time can lift your happiness because of its dopamine releasing qualities.

At the same time, music is also a wonderful tool you can use to take your running or exercising performance to a higher level. Even more so, your favorite song will help you to increase your endurance and to keep going despite feeling pain.

There are not many other activities that are so seamlessly integrated into our daily lives as listening to music. No matter if you’re having breakfast or are on your way to work – it’s very likely that music accompanies you almost everywhere you go. The following music quotes highlight the unique power of music. Enjoy!

Here is our collection of inspiring quotes about music

1.

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine

2.

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
Modest Mouse

3.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Leopold Stokowski

4.

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
Pablo Casals

5.

“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

6.

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
Albert Schweitzer

7.

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of god was music.’”
Kurt Vonnegut

8.

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

9.

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley

10.

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

11.

“Music is… a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

12.

“When words fail music speaks.”
Irena Huang

13.

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
Hannah Harrington

14.

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
Kahlil Gibran

15.

“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
Napoléon Bonaparte

16.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou

17.

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
Nicholas Sparks

19.

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
Jane Swan

20.

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen

21.

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
Confucius

22.

“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
Maria Augusta von Trapp

23.

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo

24.

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu

25.

“Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
Leonard Bernstein

26.

“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

27.

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
Arthur O’Shaughnessy

28.

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland

29.

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Charles Darwin

30.

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
Johann Sebastian Bach

31.

“The only truth is music.”
Jack Kerouac

32.

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
Frank Zappa

33.

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. „
Maya Angelou

34.

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
Sarah Dessen

35.

“A man should hear a little music […] in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

36.

“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
Taylor Swift

37.

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

38.

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It’s the best part of us probably.”
Nick Hornby

39.

“Music is my higher power”
Oliver James

40.

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
Hans Christian Andersen

41.

“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
Michael Jackson

42.

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

43.

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
George Eliot

44.

“Do you know people who insist they like ‘all kinds of music’That actually means they like no kinds of music.”
Chuck Klosterman

45.

“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There’s another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the New York Times. There’s the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel’s sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory.”
Jodi Picoult

46.

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
Marilyn Manson

47.

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
Plato

48.

“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
Michael Jackson

49.

“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.”
William Shakespeare

50.

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius

51.

“The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; the motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
William Shakespeare

52.

“Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.”
Patrick Rothfuss

53.

“We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan

54.

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
Pat Conroy

55.

“No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn’t know you were feeling.”
Josh Groban

56.

“MusicMusic is life! It’s physical emotion – you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow.”
Isaac Marion

57.

“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
Colbie Caillat

58.

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

59.

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

60.

“Music, my rampart and my only one.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay

61.

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
John Green

62.

“For me, there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
Eric Clapton

63.

“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
Igor Stravinsky

64.

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
Keith Richards

65.

“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”
Amit Ray

66.

“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”
Chuck Klosterman

67.

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Robert Fripp

68.

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the starsAnyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
Nora Roberts

69.

“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa – Who knows most, knows least.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

70.

“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”
Oscar Wilde

71.

“If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
Mark Helprin

72.

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
Martin Luther

73.

“I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
Jennifer Donnelly

74.

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”
Johnny Depp

75.

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
Jane Austen

76.

“I see my life in terms of music.”
Albert Einstein

77.

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.”
Patrick Rothfuss

78.

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.”
Charles Hart

79.

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Henry David Thoreau

80.

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

81.

“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.”
Pete Doherty

82.

“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a good start.”
Jodi Picoult

83.

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

84.

“It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts. „
Nic Sheff

85.

“Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through musicHow, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”
Orson Scott Card

86.

“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”
Rob Sheffield

87.

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
Anna Akhmatova

88.

“I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I’m lost in the music. Until I am the music – notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it’s okay because when I’m the music, I’m not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.”
Jennifer Donnelly

89.

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

90.

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
Criss Jami

91.

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
Bono

92.

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
E.Y. Harburg

93.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff

94.

“Life is one grand sweet song so start the music”
Ronald Reagan

95.

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”
Nina LaCour

96.

“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practicing, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”
Robert Schumann

97.

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
Kurt Vonnegut

98.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

99.

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Douglas Adams

100.

“And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person.”
Stephen Chbosky

101.

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

I hope you enjoyed this selection of quotes about music. What’s your most favorite song that you listen to over and over again?

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Music is a part of every known society, past and present, and is common to all human cultures across the globe.

The emotions caused by music, the attitudes of its composers and players, and the venues it is played can also vary from time to time and place to place. The music one person loves might be painful for another to listen to, and vice versa!

These music quotes tell us what music is, how it makes us feel when we play or listen to it, and how powerful it can be.

Whether you love Classical, Jazz, Country, Rock, or Pop, you’ll also find music quotes from some of your favorite musicians and composers. Put on your favorite playlist and enjoy!

Quotes About Music

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

John Paul Friedrich Richter

If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Vera Nazarin

Love is friendship set to music.

Jackson Pollock

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Oscar Wilde

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Thomas Fuller

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

Jane Swan

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.

Josh Homme

A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Guy de Maupassant

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

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 would be a blank to me.

Jane Austen

Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Sarah Churchwell

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Sarah Dessen

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Berthold Auerbach

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G.K. Chesterton

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Karl Lagerfeld

Some people have lives; some people have music.

John Green

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Maria von Trapp

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Edward Bulwar Lytton

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Johnny Depp

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

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

Victor Hugo

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Quotes About Writing, Playing, and Listening to Music

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Benjamin Disraeli

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Alan Watts

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa – Who knows most, knows least.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

Rebbe Nachman

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

Emory Austin

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Robert McKee

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

Pete Seeger

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

W.H. Auden

I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

John Barrowman

I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

Leila Sales

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

Sun Tzu

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Roy Ayers

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.

Patrick Rothfuss

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Jerry Seinfeld

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Keith Richards

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Plato

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Joshua Logan

We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.

Eddie Van Halen

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

Louis Armstrong

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Jodi Picoult

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Thomas Merton

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.

Mark Twain

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Eric Clapton

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Quotes from Musicians and Composers

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninov

Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.

John Lennon

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.

Gene Simmons

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.

Pete Doherty

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

George Gershwin

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Billy Joel

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Ludwig van Beethoven

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Franz Joseph Haydn

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Dmitri Shostakovich

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

Dave Grohl

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James Taylor

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Bob Marley

Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

Kenny Rogers

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

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Eddie Van Halen

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

Frédéric Chopin

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

Shania Twain

Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practicing, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

Robert Schumann

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Jason Mraz

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

Gustav Mahler

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Paul Simon

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

Music comes from a place we don’t know.

Chris Martin

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix

Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.

Nina Simone

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Ray Charles

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Maria von Trapp

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliot

My music isn’t just music – its medicine.

Kanye West

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Michael Jackson

Life and love go on, let the music play.

Johnny Cash

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Michael Jackson

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.

Bono

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa

Words on The Power of Music

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

Kurt Vonnegut

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Hannah Harrington

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

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.

Bill Walton

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.

Aretha Franklin

Music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Carl Jung

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Oliver Sacks

Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.

Douglas Adams

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

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

Aldous Huxley

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

Steve Maraboli

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

Colbie Caillat

Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.

Robert Browning

‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic beyond all we do here!’

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.

Bryce Anderson

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.

Yip Harburg

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Bob Marley

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Edgar Winter

Music Sayings

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb

You are the music while the music lasts.

T.S. Eliot

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O’Shaughnessy

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Osho

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Pat Conroy

Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.

Orson Scott Card

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of music quotes!

Everyone in the world, from the most isolated tribal groups to the most technologically advanced societies, has a form of music that they can relate to and experience.

Reflect on yours and enjoy the benefits of good music today.

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