October 1st is International Music Day.
Music has the power to bring people together and create a more harmonious society. It can be used to bridge cultural divides, promote understanding, and foster a sense of community. Music can also be used to express emotions, promote positive change, and bring people together in celebration. By exploring different genres and styles, we can learn to appreciate and respect each other’s differences. Music can be a powerful tool for creating a more harmonious society.
190 Famous Music Quotations
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb
A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. ― Colbie Caillat
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.” – Martin Luther
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. —Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. – Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. – Frédéric Chopin
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
Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. ― Elvis Costello
Country music is three chords and the truth. – Harlan Howard
Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. – Rebbe Nachman
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
Happy soul; begin and end your day with music. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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, Saving June
He who sings frightens away his ills. – Miguel de Cervantes
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. – John Keats
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? – Jane Swan
I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. – Igor Stravinsky
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. ― Tom Waits
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. – Billy Joel
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. – Criss Jami, Killisophy
I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. ― Bryce W. Anderson
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
I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think. – Kenny Rogers
I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. – John Barrowman
I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. – Bryce W. Anderson
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be. ― Lauren Myracle, Shine
If I cannot fly, let me sing. ― Stephen Sondheim
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
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
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. – Albert Einstein
If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. – Vera Nazarin
If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music. – Josh Groban
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
If you love and listen to the wrong kinds of music your inner life will wither and die. – A. W. Tozer
If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words ― Dolly Parton
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ― Richard Nixon
If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long. – Pete Doherty
Inspirational Music Quotes
It is not overstating the case to insist that the kinds of music you enjoy will demonstrate pretty much what you are like inside. – A. W. Tozer
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking. – Nina Simone
Life and love go on, let the music play. – Johnny Cash
Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music. – Ronald Reagan
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. – George Eliot
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. —Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
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
Love is friendship set to music. – Jackson Pollock
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. ― Benjamin Disraeli
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. – Maria Von Trapp
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. – Haruki Murakami
Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono
Music can change the world. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch. – Debasish Mridha
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species. – Oliver Sacks
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
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening. – Aretha Franklin
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words – Elie Wiesel
Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts. – Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
Music gives color to the air of the moment. – Karl Lagerfeld
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John
Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy. – Debasish Mridha
Music has real health benefits. It boosts dopamine, lowers cortisol and it makes us feel great. Your brain is better on music. – Alex Doman
Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our intuition and self-awareness. – Andre Feriante
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. – Lao Tzu
Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. – Shania Twain
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, According to the Rolling Stones
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
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
Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. – Kathy McClary
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. – Jason Mraz
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an outburst of the soul. ― Frederick Delius
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. – Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung. ― David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t. – Gene Simmons
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon
Music is healing. Music holds things together. ― Prince
Music is life itself. – Louis Armstrong
Music is love in search of a word. – Sidney Lanier
Music is my religion. – Jimi Hendrix
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death! ― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ― Thomas Fuller
Music is one of the longest standing self-prescribed therapy in history. – Erin Seibert
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. – Ray Charles
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. – Oscar Wilde
Music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world. – Kamand Kojouri
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals
Music is the emotional life of most people. – Leonard Cohen
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. – Sarah Dessen
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language, they still know good music when they hear it. – Lou Rawls
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. – Kahlil Gibran
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ― John Erskine
Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. – Josh Homme
Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soundtrack of your life. – Dick Clark
Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have. – Alex Gaskarth
Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson
Music is the strongest form of magic. ― Marilyn Manson
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference. – Herbie Hancock
Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. – Modest Mouse
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. – Edgar Winter
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. ― Thomas Carlyle
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. – Napoléon Bonaparte
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. – Charlie Parker
Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. – Orson Scott Card
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
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. – Michael Bassey Johnson
Music should be an essential part of every analysis. – Carl Jung
Music should be your escape. – Missy Elliot
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. – Johnny Depp
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach
Music with all its subtlety has immense power to unite people, spread love and bring peace in the world! – Sanchita Pandey
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer Lytton
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
Music… is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits. – Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. – Billy Joel
My ambition was to live like music. – Mary Gaitskill
My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music. – Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. – Martin Luther
My music isn’t just music—it’s medicine. – Kanye West
Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind. ― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts. – T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has. – Taylor Swift
Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. – Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin
Some people have lives; some people have music. – John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. ― John Milton
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
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. ― Dave Grohl
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. – Bruce Springsteen
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God. – Martin Luther
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. – Pete Seeger
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence. – Arthur Schopenhauer
The more you love music, the more music you love. ― Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. – H. Auden
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant recreation. – Johann Sebastian Bach
The only truth is music. – Jack Kerouac
The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars. – Independent Zen
The power of music to integrate and cure… is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. – Oliver Sacks
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, Love Is a Mix Tape
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. – Roy Ayers
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. – Duke Ellington
The world’s most famous and popular language is music. – PSY
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
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ― George Eliot
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. – George Carlin
Those who wish to sing always find a song. – Unknown
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. – Helen Thompson
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. – Aaron Copland
Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars. – Margot Benary-Isbert
We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
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
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
When we sing together in harmony, our hearts start beating together. – Tania De Jong
When words fail music speaks. – Irena Huang
When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. ― Frank Ocean
Where words fail, music speaks. – Hans Christian Andersen
Where words leave off, music begins. – Heinrich Heine
Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? ― Goldie Hawn
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. – Frank Zappa
Without music, life would be a blank to me. – Jane Austen, Emma
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. – E.Y. Harburg
You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte