630+ Music Quotes

Music that we listen to in our lives is the most impactful. From classical songs, which have robust melodiousness, to EDMs, which make the heart thump, music enervates us, fills us with inspiration, and even alternates our moods.

Music is the real power of human life. This is something we all know, but we never really think about it. Many other things can inspire you to play your music more!

Hopefully, the list below brings you wisdom, motivation, or inspiration. Heck, maybe it even brought you all three. We definitely do appreciate the gift of music, solely because it’s something that keeps on giving.

List of Famous and Inspirational Quotes about Music

1. Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. – Dave Matthews
2. The world’s most famous and popular language is music. – Psy
3. I call architecture frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. Louis Armstrong
5. Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy – Ludwig van Beethoven
6. Sometimes music is all you need.
7. Behind every favorite song, there is an untold story.
8. Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me. – Kailash Kher
9. Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. – Napoléon Bonaparte
10. Music makes us want to live. You don’t known how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has. – Mary J. Blige
11. Music, my rampart and my only one. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

12. Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking. – Nina Simone
13. Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different. In the end, it has made me the happiest. – Lindsey Stirling
14. Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon
15. You can find me where the music meets the ocean.
16. To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. – P. T. Barnum
17. Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven
18. Music is proof for the existence of God
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. – Bryce Anderson
24. Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. – Christian Nestell Bovee
25. I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. – Robert Fulghum
26. 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
27. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. – G.K. Chesterton
28. Music: An expression of your emotions.
29. Ah, music, he said, wiping his eyes. A magic beyond all we do here! – J.K. Rowling
30. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche
31. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals
32. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. – Maya Angelou
33. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. – Oscar Wilde
34. 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
35. People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has. – Taylor swift
36. Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. – Billie Joe Armstrong
37. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley
38. 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
39. Behind every favorite song, there is an untold music.
40. Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther

41. 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
42. I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. – Christina Milian
43. I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. – Criss Jami
44. Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse. – Patrick Rothfuss
45. The only truth is music. – Jack Kerouac
46. I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music. – Nat King Cole
47. I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm. – Taylor Swift
48. Some people have lives; some people have music. – John Green
49. If I show you my music, the playlists that keep my heart beating and my outlook bright, I am sharing with you part of my deepest secret inner world and have found you worthy to peer into my very being.
50. Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. – Modest Mouse
51. 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
52. When words fail music speaks
53. Music is… a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.
54. Dear Music, I will never be able to thank you enough for always being there for me.
55. Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. – Kurt Vonnegut

56. When it feels like the lyrics to the song you’re listening to were written just for you.
57. Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true. – Jonathan Safran Foer
58. There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras
59. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. – Ludwig van Beethoven
60. Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t. – Gene Simmons
61. When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. – Lady Gaga
62. Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine. – Macklemore
63. Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. – Judith Viorst
64. Music is my religion. – Jimi Hendrix
65. Music is well said to be the speech of angels. – Thomas Carlyle
66. Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. – Napoleon Bonaparte
67. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. – David Bowie
68. The need to listen to music all the time.
69. Listen closely to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.
70. Your heart is just a beat box for the song of your life. – Sandi Thom
71. I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music. – Kevin Gates
72. The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise. – Darren Criss
73. Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. – Lady Gaga
74. My job has very little to do with music. It has more to do with taste and culture and balance. – Rick Rubin
75. 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 the music itself. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
76. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. – Oscar Wilde

77. Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which language fail to express. – A.R. Rahman
78. Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. – Robert Browning
79. Voice: An expression of your intensity.
80. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. – Lou Rawls
81. 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.
82. Music is a thing that changes people’s lives. It has the capacity to make young people’s lives better. – Noel Gallagher
83. Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. – Jason Mraz
84. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. – Martin Luther
85. If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. – Richard M. Nixon
86. Each memory has a soundtrack of its own.
87. 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
88. Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference. – Herbie Hancock
89. I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
90. Love is friendship set to music. – Jackson Pollock

91. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music. – Chester Bennington
92. I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear. – Freddie Mercury
93. 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
94. Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.
95. I replied: Because it’s the only thing that stays when everything and everyone is gone.
96. Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
97. Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are. – Tiffanie DeBartolo
98. It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. – George Eliot
99. Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. – Shania Twain
100. Music is life. That’s why our hearts have beats. – Cecily Morgan
101. Music is the prayer the heart sings.
102. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. – Maggie Stiefvater
103. Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. – Ronald Reagan
104. Mathematics is the music of reason. – James Joseph Sylvester
105. 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
106. Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. – Edgar Winter
107. In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. – Michio Kaku
108. Music gives the inspiring, yet intangible beauty, path of expression a voice. – Ellis Hadlock
109. Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. – Haruki Murakami
110. 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
111. 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
112. I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music. – James Taylor
113. I write songs so that the person i didn’t say those words to can hear them. – Taylor Swift
114. Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it. – Jeff Lynne
115. 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
116. Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. – Bruno Mars
117. Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. – Lenny Kravitz

118. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. – Plato
119. Where words fail, music speaks. – Hans Christian Andersen
120. Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art. – Charlie Parker
121. To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. – Nadia Boulanger
122. Music means various types of sounds: when they’re in tune it becomes music; out of tune it becomes noise. The same is true with you. If all the different ingredients of who you are become in tune, you are like music; out of tune you become noise. – Sadhguru
123. 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
124. Music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. – Andres Segovia
125. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach
126. 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
127. Without music, life is a journey through a desert. – Pat Conroy
128. Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan
129. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp

130. Music expresses the inexpressible.
131. Good music is good music. – Gretchen Wilson
132. If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. – Thomas Carlyle
133. 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
134. It’s pretty cool to see how far music can take you. – Luke Bryan
135. A girl’s favorite songs will tell you more about how she feels than her lips ever will.
136. It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts. – Nic Sheff
137. Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. – Eminem
138. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach
139. Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it. – Elvis Presley
140. I have a therapist. Her name is music.
141. Sometimes you’re gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that’s when you find new music, places that you’ve never been before. – Butch Trucks
142. Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. – Charles Hart
143. Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. – Ludwig van Beethoven
144. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. – Sarah Dessen
145. You can’t touch music but music can touch you.
146. With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why. – Davide Byrne
147. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. – Roy Ayers
148. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau
149. Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

150. I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it. – Wiz Khalifa
151. I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. – Chris Stapleton
152. People want hear songs with words they’re afraid to say.
153. 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
154. Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. – Oliver Sacks
155. I can’t explain how i feel but i can find a song that can.
156. Music comes from a place we don’t know. – Chris Martin
157. My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. – Bob Marley
158. Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. – Robert Browning
159. Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
160. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. – Sergei Rachmaninoff
161. 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
162. The best feeling is getting lost in the music.
163. There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. – Louis Armstrong
164. Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
165. We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
166. Music in my veins is what keeps me sane.
167. Life is one grand sweet song so start the music
168. Next to love, music is the best solution to any problem. Music feeds the heart what it needs in the moment.
169. Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. – Frédéric Chopin
170. Anybody with a good record collection will always be in love.
171. The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. – W.H. Auden
172. Music is the emotional life of most people. – Leonard Cohen
173. 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
174. When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. – Montserrat Caballe
175. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. – Lao Tzu
176. Music is the soundtrack of your life. – Dick Clark

177. Music is the medicine of the mind. – John Logan
178. 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
179. Good music calms my soul, it take me to another place, away from my problems.
180. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou
181. 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
182. 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
183. Sometimes, it’s not the song that makes you emotional; It’s the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
184. That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. – Harry Styles
185. Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. – E.Y. Harburg
186. If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music. – Will.I.Am
187. It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music. – Sivamani
188. The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard. – Chelsea Leyland
189. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John
190. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. – Alain Ducasse
191. When the pain penetrates the music resonates.
192. Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. – Steve Sabol
193. 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
194. Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song. – Ed Sheeran
195. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
196. 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
197. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine
198. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. – Leonard Bernstein
199. My ambition was to live like music. – Mary Gaitskill
200. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
201. When you play, never mind who listens to you. – Robert Schumann
202. What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. – Adam Braun
203. 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
204. 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
205. 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
206. I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever! – LeBron James
207. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. – Edith Sitwell
208. Because when he sings…even the birds stop to listen. – Suzanne Collins

209. Music is really driving my whole life. – Ariana Grande
210. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. – Thomas Fuller
211. 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
212. Most things in music go full circle eventually. – Simon Cowell
213. The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. – John O’Donohue
214. The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a good start. – Jodi Picoult
215. Music gives voice to emotions.
216. Music is love in search of a word. – Sidney Lanier
217. Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. – John Denver
218. Music I what I breathe what I love to do. It keeps me alive. – Miley Cyrus
219. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. – Ludwig van Beethoven
220. Sometimes music is the only thing that takes your mind off everything else.
221. Do you know people who insist they like ‘all kinds of music’That actually means they like no kinds of music. – Chuck Klosterman
222. Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is a 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
223. God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, everywhere, even the stars. – Robin Wiliams.
224. The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite. – Christina Westover
225. If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down. – Eminem
226. I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people. – John Coltrane
227. The key to one’s heart is hidden in their playlist.
228. Chamber music – a conversation between friends. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
229. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
230. Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them. – Louis Armstrong
231. Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. – Damon Albarn
232. If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. – Anna Akhmatova
233. My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that. – Trent Reznor
234. If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long. – Pete Doherty
235. That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. – Corita Kent
236. 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
237. At times I fit into lyrics more than I fit into life.
238. Turn up the volume close your eyes and let the music take over your soul.
239. Music is a safe kind of high. – Jimi Hendrix
240. Ladies and gentleman, I’ve suffered for my music, now it’s your turn. – Neil Innes
241. I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you’re down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it. – Chris Cornell
242. 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
243. Music is the answer, I don’t remember the question.
244. Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolsto
245. Music can repair brain damage and returns lost memories.
246. Are we not formed, as notes of music are, for one another, though dissimilar? – Percy Bysshe Shelley
247. Healing my heart, and lifting my spirits.
248. I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. – Ludwig van Beethoven
249. Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing. – David Sanborn
250. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. – Kahlil Gibran
251. Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music. – Taylor Swift
252. If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Vera Nazarian
253. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul
254. 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
255. Music once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
256. To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. – Aaron Copland
257. I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears. – Adele
258. If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution. – Emma Goldman
259. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. – Johnny Depp
260. Today’s music got the same soul. I like that old time rock and roll.
261. I will sing until the miracle comes.
262. Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart.
263. Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. – E. Y. Harburg
264. Close your eyes. Listen. Nothing’s missing. – Maxime Lagacé
265. Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. – Bernie Siegel
266. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman. – Ludwig van Beethoven
267. Where words leave off, music begins. – Heinrich Heine
268. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
269. Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. – Ray Charles
270. Music is what feelings sounds like.
271. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
272. When in doubt, turn the music up.
273. Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child’s life via the education system. – Victoria Wood
274. I’m not a pretty princess, and I’m aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that’s when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I’m not necessarily the good girl. – Ashley Wagner
275. Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
276. 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 music. How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message? – Orson Scott Card
277. Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.
278. Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
279. 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
280. I see my life in terms of music. – Albert Einstein

281. Finding old music you used to love is like getting back in touch with an old friend.
282. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. – Victor hugo
283. 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
284. In music the passions enjoy themselves. – Friedrich Nietzsche
285. Dear Music. Thanks for always clearing my head, healing my heart, and lifting my spirits. – Lori Deschene
286. I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. – Elizabeth Berkley
287. Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. – Zoe Saldana
288. 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
289. Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. – Thomas Beecham
290. Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. – Jimi Hendrix
291. I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. – Duke Ellington
292. Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
293. If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working. – A. R. Rahman
294. Music is my escape from all bullshit in life.
295. I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do. – Katy Perry
296. Life is a song. Love is the music.
297. There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. – Mickey Hart
298. Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius
299. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. – Henny Youngman
300. I like my music so loud, I can’t hear my thoughts.
301. There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. – Dhani Jones
302. Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music. – LZ Granderson
303. We listen to music because we want to dream. – Lady gaga
304. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. – George Eliot
305. 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
306. Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
307. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven
308. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius
309. I don’t make music for eyes, I make music for ears. – Adele
310. My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts I can say facts. My music will go on forever. – Bob Marley

311. If I cannot fly, let me sing. – Stephen Sondheim
312. Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson
313. Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it – John Lennon
314. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make. – Truman Capote
315. I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think. – Kenny Rogers
316. Peopled at once. – Robert Browning
317. My music is best understood by children and animals. – Igor Stravinsky
318. My music is a luxury. – Lana Del Rey
319. The market didn’t define the music; the music defined the market. – Charlie Hunter
320. Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
321. 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
322. Next to the word of god the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. – Martin Luther
323. 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
324. Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. – Cecilia Bartoli
325. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. – Maria Augusta von Trapp
326. Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. – Hans Christian Andersen
327. You are the music while the music lasts. – T. S. Eliot
328. A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance. – Mel Brooks
329. A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. – Colbie Caillat
330. 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
331. Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
332. 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
333. There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. – William Shakespeare
334. I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. – Morrissey
335. The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. – George Lucas
336. If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal. – Mark Helprin
337. 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
338. 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
339. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer
340. If it doesn’t come from your heart, music just doesn’t work. – Levon Helm
341. I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they’re blessings. They’re blessings in every way. Whether you’re able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you’re just a channel. – Justin Timberlake
342. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. – Johnny Cash
343. Without music, life would be a blank to me. – Jane Austen
344. Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. – Pope Francis
345. When you’re happy you enjoy the music when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.
346. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. – Tom Waits
347. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? – Jane Swan
348. 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.
349. I swear music puts me in another zone.
350. Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. – Nat Wolff
351. Music is the color of sound.
352. It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. – John Mayer
353. The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach
354. Music is my higher power – Oliver James
355. 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
356. Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
357. What music appeals to in 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
358. 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
359. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron
360. My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me. – Gerard Way
361. If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
362. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. – Plato
363. You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. – David Byrne
364. Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time. – Nick Hornby
365. A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. – Stanley Kubrick
366. 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
367. The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. – James Gates Percival
368. A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
369. Music is basically the only thing that understands me.
370. 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 a 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
371. When words fail music speaks. – Irena Huang
372. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

373. Music is like a huge release of tension. – James Taylor
374. Music itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity.
375. Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
376. For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. – Reba McEntire
377. Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars. Anyone 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
378. Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. – Josh Homme
379. Any good music must be an innovation. – Les Baxter
380. People who show you new music are important.
381. Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. – Victoria Wood
382. When you discover new music and it feels like you found a whole new world.
383. If music is the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. – William Shakespeare
384. Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. – A. J. McLean
385. All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. – Frank Zappa
386. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. – Frank Zappa
387. The best lyrics are the ones that give you goose bumps or make you cry in public or help you realize the answers.
388. Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono
389. Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. – Tom Petty
390. Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. – Marilyn vos Savant
391. Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won’t. – Gary Bartz
392. Lyric: An expression of your feelings.
393. The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. – Charles Baudelaire
394. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. – Martin Luther
395. I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. – Joan Miro
396. You call it demonic because you hear screaming, I call it lifesaving because I hear the meaning.
397. Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. – Michael Bassey Johnson
398. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
399. Music is for every single person that walks the planet. – Robert Plant

400. 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
401. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. – Benjamin Disraeli

Short Music Quotes

1. Music should be your escape. – Missy Elliott
2. Music is the poetry of the air. – Richter
3. I think that music has an endless life. – Anne Dudley
4. You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte
5. Music is what life sounds like. – Eric Olson
6. The pause is as important as the note. – Truman Fisher
7. Music is my higher power. – Oliver James
8. Philosophy is the highest music. – Plato
9. Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! – Maria Augusta von Trapp
10. He who sings frightens away his ills. – Miguel de Cervantes
11. Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
12. Every life has a soundtrack. – Jodi Picoult
13. Music: the soul’s flight into the infinite.
14. Life’s a song; love’s the lyrics.
15. Harmony in heart, melody in mind.
16. Music: where words fail, vibes speak.
17. Every beat is a life’s fleeting moment.
18. Silence: the canvas for musical magic.
19. Music: the echo of unseen worlds.
20. Rhythm is the heartbeat of the soul.
21. Melodies: the colors of auditory art.
22. In music, emotions find their voice.

Inspirational Music Quotes

1. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. – Bruce Springsteen
2. We’ve already invented a time machine. It’s called music. – Brian Norgard
3. 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
4. Music hits us in a really emotional way. For me, it took me away in a way that nothing else could. – Rick Rubin
5. Music is the spark that ignites the soul, setting ablaze a fire of creativity that burns bright against the dark silence.
6. In the realm of music, every note is a beacon of hope, guiding the heart through the storms of life.
7. Music is the compass of the soul, its melody a map leading to the treasure of self-discovery.
8. Through the veil of music, one glimpses the infinite, a realm where every sound is a star illuminating the darkness.
9. Music is the wind that fills the sails of the heart, propelling us forward on the sea of dreams.
10. In the garden of life, music is the sun that nurtures the seeds of hope, allowing them to blossom into flowers of joy.
11. Music is the ladder to the heavens, each note a rung on the ascent to the celestial.
12. Through the language of music, one speaks to the essence of existence, uttering the unutterable, expressing the inexpressible.
13. Music is the key that unlocks the doors of possibility, turning the mundane into the magical, the ordinary into the extraordinary.
14. In the symphony of life, music is the conductor, orchestrating a harmony of experiences that resonate through the corridors of time.

Funny Music Quotes

1. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. – Frank Zappa
2. Play it fuckin’ loud! – Bob Dylan
3. Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny. – Frank Zappa
4. Country music is three chords and the truth. – Harlan Howard
5. Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa
6. I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. – John Barrowman
7. Music is much like fucking, but some composers can’t climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. – Charles Bukowski
8. Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. – Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
9. A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t. – Mark Twain
10. If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. – Oscar Wilde
11. Music is the best way to annoy your neighbors, especially if your instrument of choice is the drums… at 3 AM.
12. They say music can alter moods and talk to you, but I’m starting to think my playlist is plotting against me.
13. I asked my piano why it’s always so stressful to play, it said it’s because it has too many keys and not enough locks.
14. Why did the musician break up with the metronome? Because it couldn’t keep up, always a beat too late!
15. I told my family I’d be the next big thing in music, now they just call me DJ Earwax.
16. My guitar must have a dark sense of humor, every time I play, it strings me along with a chorus of cringe.
17. Music theory is the musician’s version of being fluent in sarcasm, it sounds good but nobody really understands it.
18. They say music soothes the savage beast, but every time I sing, my cat looks ready to attack.
19. I joined a band called “1023 Megabytes”… we haven’t gotten a gig yet.
20. My music career hit a sour note, now I’m playing the blues on a kazoo in my backyard.

Quotes – Power of Music

1. Music’s the medicine of the mind. – John A. Logan
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. For me, everything definitely comes from music. – Mike Myers
6. Music is the unseen force that moves the soul, igniting fires of emotion and waves of thought with every beat.
7. The power of music lies in its ability to quickly transport us to other worlds, to heal, to evoke, and to make us feel alive.
8. With every strum, music creates ripples in the fabric of our emotions, each note a catalyst for the unseen currents of feeling.
9. Music is the alchemy of the soul, turning silence into emotion, the mundane into the extraordinary.
10. The potency of music is its ability to speak the unspoken, to be the voice of the unvoiced, resonating through the corridors of our inner world.
11. Music is a force of nature, its rhythm echoing the heartbeat of existence, its melody painting colors of emotion across the canvas of our minds.
12. Through the veins of society flows music, the lifeblood of the collective soul, binding us in a shared experience of the human condition.
13. Music is the whisper of the cosmos, echoing through time and space, resonating with the innate harmony of existence.
14. The power of music is a journey, a voyage through the seas of emotion, each note a stepping stone into the depths of the human experience.
15. Music is the key that unlocks the doors of emotion, its power a gentle force that invites us to feel, to explore, and to be alive.

Quotes on Music Education

1. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music. – Gerald R. Ford
2. Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. – Yo-Yo Ma
3. Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. – Joyce Brothers
4. Music can change the world. – Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. – Aristotle
6. Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. – Martin Luther
7. 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
8. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. – Plato
9. The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create. – Barack Obama
10. I don’t think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program. – Bill Clinton
11. Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. – Billie Joe Armstrong
12. The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. – Chuck Palahniuk
13. If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing. – Eddie Van Halen
14. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education. – Yo-Yo Ma
15. I have a greater goal – to empower young people through music education. – Ruben Studdard
16. Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world. – Paul Carvel
17. Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. – Plato
18. Music education stimulates, challenges, and enriches our young people during their formative, school years; its value lasts a lifetime. – Tammy Baldwin
19. Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective. – William J. Clinton
20. Music education can help spark a child’s imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. – Hillary Clinton
21. If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today. – Jef Raskin
22. Education isn’t just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. – Julie Garwood
23. Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. – Aristotle
24. I can not imagine my life if I didn’t have a music program in my school. – Beyonce
25. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. – Shinichi Suzuki
26. Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. – Gerald R. Ford
27. Early music training seems to shape the young brain, strengthening the neural connections and perhaps establishing new ones. – Dr. Frances Rauscher
28. Music education is not just about notes and scales; it’s a journey into the heart of creativity and expression.
29. Through the lens of music education, one can see the rhythm of thought and the melody of intellect intertwine.
30. Music education is the key that unlocks the door to a realm where emotions and ideas dance to the tune of understanding.
31. In the classroom of music, every note is a question and every silence an answer, fostering a dialogue between the soul and the cosmos.
32. Music education is the soil in which the seeds of creativity and discipline are sown, growing into a garden of endless possibilities.
33. The tapestry of music education is woven with threads of history, culture, and the endless quest for expression.
34. Music education is the crucible where the raw ore of talent is refined into the gold of mastery.
35. Through music education, one learns the language of emotion, the grammar of creativity, and the syntax of imagination.
36. Music education is not a path of rote learning but a journey of exploration, where every note is a discovery and every song a new horizon.
37. The heart of music education beats with the rhythm of curiosity, the melody of exploration, and the harmony of lifelong learning.

Quotes about Music and Life

1. You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. – Rebecca West
2. Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the beautiful is dead. – Benjamin Disraeli
3. The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. – Pete Seeger
4. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. – Langston Hughes
5. Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin
6. Music is the rhythm of existence, life its melody; together they compose the symphony of the cosmos.
7. In the grand orchestra of life, every soul is both a musician and a note, resonating in the harmony of existence.
8. Music is the language of emotions, life is the story it tells; each note a fleeting moment, each melody a chapter lived.
9. Life’s complexities are unraveled in the simplicity of a melody, its truths echoed in the silence between the notes.
10. Like a song with endless verses, life unfolds in a rhythm of challenges and triumphs, each beat propelling us forward.
11. Music is the echo of the unseen, life is the dance of the unknown; together they weave the fabric of the infinite.
12. In the music of life, every hardship is a dissonant chord resolving into the harmonies of growth and understanding.
13. Music is the heartbeat of the soul, life is the canvas of experiences; one gives rhythm, the other gives color.
14. Through the lens of music, life’s cacophony transforms into a chorus of purpose and possibility.
15. Music and life are intertwined in a dance of change and expression, each step a journey towards the essence of being.

Happiness and Love

1. I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. – William James
2. 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
3. The more you love music, the more music you love. – Tom Moon
4. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. – Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
6. As long as we live, there is never enough singing. – Martin Luther
7. 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
8. Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. – William Green
9. Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time. – Tom Petty
10. There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music. – Robert Browning
11. It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. – Victor de LaPrade
12. Music fills the present with electric ecstasy. – James Lendall Basford
13. Those who wish to sing always find a song.
14. The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits. – Erich Maria Remarque
15. Love strums the heartstrings with a melody of joy, composing a symphony of happiness that resonates through the soul.
16. When love and music meet, hearts dance in the rhythm of joy, creating a timeless tune of happiness.
17. The harmony of love orchestrates a life filled with joyful tunes, making every day a beautiful song.
18. Music is the language of love, and love is the music of the heart, together they write the lyrics of happiness.
19. Love is the composer, happiness the song, and life the dance floor where our hearts beat in rhythm to the music of existence.
20. The rhythm of love beats to the tune of happiness, creating a melody that colors our world with musical joy.
21. In the orchestra of life, love is the conductor, happiness the composition, and we, the instruments creating the melody.
22. Love’s melody serenades the heart, igniting a dance of joy that moves to the rhythm of life’s beautiful song.
23. The symphony of love resonates through the chords of happiness, creating a melody that sings in the heart forever.
24. When love orchestrates the music of our hearts, every beat resonates with the joyous tunes of happiness, composing the soundtrack of our existence.

Quotes about Making Music

1. Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. – Lawrence Duncan
2. I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. – Tupac Shakur
3. I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. – Paul McCartney
4. Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul. – Wassily Kandinsky
5. To play without passion is inexcusable! – Ludwig von Beethoven.

6. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
7. A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. – Jay-Z
8. Music is a liberal science, and ought to be liberally upheld. – Olivia Dussek Buckley
9. 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
10. Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. – Fred Frith
11. He not busy being born is busy dying. – Bob Dylan
12. When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. – Jennifer Donnelly
13. It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. – Frédéric Chopin
14. It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree’s to leaf itself in April. – Alexander Smith
15. I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me. – Lady Gaga
16. Making music is like weaving threads of emotions and thoughts into a tapestry of sound.
17. In the act of creating music, one uncovers the hidden dialogues between the heart and the universe.
18. Music creation is a journey into the unknown, with each note a step towards the unexplored.
19. To make music is to sculpt silence into emotion, carving out a space where feelings breathe.
20. The process of making music is akin to catching lightning in a bottle, capturing the transient spark of the ephemeral.
21. Making music is a form of alchemy, transmuting the mundane into the magical through melody and rhythm.
22. In the crucible of creation, music emerges as the gold of emotional expression.
23. The act of making music is a rebellion against the silence, a bold declaration of existence in a universe of noise.
24. Through the hands of the musician, the unseen takes form, birthing melodies that speak the language of the soul.
25. Making music is like painting on the canvas of time, each note a stroke of color in the unfolding narrative of existence.

Emotional

1. Melody is, and ever will be, the very flower of music. – August W. Ambros
2. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3. All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle
4. Songs are as sad as the listener. – Jonathan Safran Foer
5. There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music. – John Keats
6. Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. – L.M. Elliott
7. I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. – Charles Bukowski
8. Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. – Pete Seeger
9. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
10. Music is the unseen fabric that weaves the chaos of the world into harmony.
11. In every heartstring, music finds a melody, turning silence into a symphony.
12. Music is the echo of emotions, resonating through the soul, leaving echoes in the heart.
13. Through the veil of tears, music emerges as the rainbow, coloring the sky of the soul.
14. Music is the language of the unseen, speaking to the heart in whispers only the soul can understand.
15. When words falter, music speaks the unspoken, touching the heart with the tenderness of a thousand sunsets.
16. Music is the dance of emotions, twirling around the heart, leaving footprints of memories.
17. In the garden of emotions, music blooms as the most exquisite flower, its fragrance lingering long after the melody has ceased.
18. Music is the bridge between the earthly and the ethereal, carrying emotions on wings of melody to realms beyond.
19. With every beat, music sketches emotions, painting the canvas of the soul with shades unseen.

Wise

1. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert G. Ingersoll
2. Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it’s music or feelings or love. They’re things we can’t really see or touch. They’re not material, but they’re vitally important to us. – Judy Collins
3. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. – John Erskine
4. There is no such thing as happy music. – Franz Schubert
5. A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. – Henry Giles
6. Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
7. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders. – Pete Seeger
8. Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza
9. A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. – Guy de Maupassant
10. 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
11. Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. – C.S. Lewis
12. In the realm of harmonies, emotions find their voice, transcending the silence of indifference.
13. Music is the unseen painter of audible landscapes, where each note is a stroke of genius.
14. In the dance of melodies, the soul finds its rhythm, and the heart beats in tunes of unseen scripts.
15. The essence of music is the journey it embarks upon, weaving through the threads of the mundane, reaching for the sublime.
16. Through the veil of music, the mundane acquires a touch of the divine, and the ordinary glimpses the extraordinary.
17. Music is the language of the unspoken, a bridge between the known and the unknown.
18. In the garden of music, every emotion blooms, resonating with the colors of unseen spectrums.
19. Music is the alchemist, turning the lead of daily grind into the gold of sublime experiences.
20. The symphony of life finds its conductor in music, orchestrating the chaos into a harmonious melody.
21. Music is the echo of the unseen, a reflection of the world beyond the veil of the ordinary.

Country Music Quotes

1. Life can be an ol’ briar patch, gotta dance your way through it sometimes. – Thomas Rhett
2. I’d do anything with you anywhere. – Lee Brice
3. Just stay on track and never look back. – Dolly Parton
4. Let’s make each tomorrow be the best that it can be. – George Strait
5. This is a drop everything kind of thing. – Luke Bryan
6. I hate love songs, but I love you. – Kelsea Ballerini
7. I don’t want ‘good’ and I don’t want ‘good enough.’ I want ‘can’t sleep, can’t breathe without you’ love. – Hunter Hayes
8. The best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun. – Shania Twain
9. And you know if there’s one thing this blonde has learned, blondes have more fun. – Dolly Parton
10. In every twang of a guitar, there’s a tale of the heart waiting to be told.
11. Country roads don’t just lead to places, they lead to memories.
12. Whiskey might not solve problems, but it’s a damn good attempt.
13. Life is a rodeo, and love is the prize we’re all chasin’ after.
14. The heartland is where the heart learns the rhythm of courage.
15. A cowboy’s silence speaks louder than the city’s endless noise.
16. In the country, the stars ain’t just in the sky, they’re in the songs we sing.
17. A good country song is a mirror to the soul, reflecting the dust and dreams of life.
18. The prairie is a stage, and every dawn is the curtain rising on a new act.
19. Country music is the voice of the soil, telling tales of love, loss, and the land.

Music is life to us—it could be the digital playlist on our smartphones, while to others, it could be an echo of the symphony in the concert hall, but it keeps giving on and on. From the great artists who have helped shape our lives to those living among us today, quotes about Music come from them and offer us a sense of motivation and inspiration at times when we struggle or offer us wisdom for life’s toughest questions.

Whether you need words of encouragement or what inspires your favorite musician, this list has something for you with loads of great insights from popular thinkers and modern-day master songwriters like Frank Zappa and John Lennon.

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