100 Famous and Inspirational Music Quotes

Famous and Inspirational Quotes 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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