The Best 75 Quotes About Music

Posted by myPPK™ - Power Press Kits™ on Monday, June 27, 2022

Nothing touches and impacts every life in so many different ways than music. All types of music. Often it can be difficult to put that impact into words. But it can always be put into music.

Music is a universal language that transcends the boundaries of culture, race, religion and gender. All factors that can divide people. Poet and Harvard Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously said, “Music is the universal language of mankind.”

It’s a form of communication that transcends space and time, touching the hearts of people across the globe.

Music can make people happy, sad, energized, introspective and contemplative. With a single note music can be a source of healing, inspiration, unity, worship, and so much more; transmitted soul to soul. Music is a language that is harbored in every mind, every person, every group and every nation.

We have compiled our top 75 best music quotes (in no particular order) to inspire you! Please enjoy and share!

The POWER... of the PAUSE!!
A caesura (pronounced sez-yoo-ra) is a timely-pause -- a strategic silence -- that occurs within a line of poetry or song. Caesurae are also quite effective in public speaking, leadership, and negotiating. Writers use caesurae to create variation in the rhythm of a poem, or to emphasize words in the middle of lines that might not otherwise receive attention.
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"The woods are lovely, || dark and deep"
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"One evening I took beauty in my arms, || and I thought her bitter, || ... || and I insulted her."
[Eddie and The Cruisers movie - 1983]

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (01)

"Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance."
- Eric Clapton (02)

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
- Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare (03)

“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
- Roy Ayers (04)

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ”
– Leopold Stokowski (05)

"Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't."
- Johnny Depp (06)

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
– Plato (07)

“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
– William James (08)

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
- Jane Swan (09)

“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.”
– Pete Seeger (10)

"Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time."
- Eric Clapton (11)

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
– Confucius (12)

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
– Maya Angelou (13)

“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.”
– Martin Luther (14)

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (15)

“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
– Emory Austin (16)

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”
- Plato (17)

“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 (18)

"Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion."
- Eric Clapton (19)

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
– Louis Armstrong (20)

“Music — what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!”
– Maria August von Trapp (21)

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
– Heinrich Heine (22)

“We believed anything worth doing was worth overdoing.”
- Steven Tyler (23)

"The world's most famous and popular language is music."
- Psy (24)

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley (25)

“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.”
- E.W. Howe (26)

“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 (27)

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
- Maya Angelou (28)

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
- Ludwig van Beethoven (29)

"Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue greatness anyways!"
-Tony Gaskins (30)

“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 (31)

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
- Frederick Delius (32)

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
- Thomas Carlyle (33)

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
- Martin Luther (34)

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”
- Swedish proverb (35)

“I don't know a soul who doesn't experience some sort of emotion after hearing a song.”
- Unknown (36)

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
- Johann Sebastian Bach (37)

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
- Paul McCartney (38)

“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 (39)

“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 (40)

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
– Hans Christian Andersen (41)

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
– Bob Marley (42)

“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
– Christian Nestell Bovee (43)

“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
- B. B. King (44)

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton (45)

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
– Chinese proverb (46)

“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”
- Herbie Hancock (47)

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
– William Shakespeare (48)

“I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.”
– Stevie Ray Vaughan (49)

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
– Lao Tzu (50)

“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 (51)

“You were born an original, don't die a copy.”
- John Mason (52)

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
– Edgar Winter (53)

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (54)

“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
– Maurice Ravel (55)

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
– Sergei Rachmaninoff (56)

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll (57)

“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”
– Amit Ray (58)

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (59)

“Music is healing. Music holds things together.”
- Prince (60)

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
- Sarah Dessen (61)

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
- Duke Ellington (62)

“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.”
- Pete Doherty (63)

“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
- Bryce W. Anderson (64)

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
- Oscar Wild (65)

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
- Robert Fripp (66)

“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
- Colbie Caillat (67)

“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 (68)

“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.”
- Ronald Reagan (69)

“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.”
- Debasish Mridhac (70)

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
- Alphonse de Lamartine (71)

“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 (72)

“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.”
- Josh Homme (73)

“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 (74)

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
- Karl Lagerfeld (75)

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