55 Famous and Inspirational Music Quotes, thoughts and images

Famous and Inspirational Quotes and Images about Music

List of best quotes about music.

Check out the famous and inspirational music quotes below:

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

“I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey

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

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

“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

“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

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

“The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

“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

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

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

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

“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits

“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

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

“Music comes from a place we don’t know.” – Chris Martin

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

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

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

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

“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

“Love is friendship set to music.” ― Jackson Pollock

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

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

“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

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

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

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

“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

  “If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk are the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian

“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

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot

“Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo

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

“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