Music is something that connects people and brings us together. It can be used to express love, happiness, pain, or heartbreak. It can also be used to provide a way of self-care and healing. Music is a universal language that is understood in every culture across the world.
The world of music is ever-changing, with new genres popping up all the time. Finding a genre that you’re truly passionate about can be challenging, but it’s worth it because music can have such a profound effect on your life.
Music and dance share similar traits, such as self-expression and providing an outlet for catharsis; furthermore, they can both be used for stress relief and are often used to help alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety. It has the power to make you feel something profound inside of you.
So whether you’re looking for a bit of inspiration or want to put on your headphones and zone out in peace, there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy or create music.
Here are the top 150 inspirational music quotes that will fuel your soul.
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” – Paul Simon
“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.” – David Byrne
“The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” – Psy
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” – Pat Conroy
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” – Emory Austin
“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” – Pete Seeger
“It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.” – Sivamani
“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” – Amit Ray
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.” – Corita Kent
“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles
“The market didn’t define the music; the music defined the market.” – Charlie Hunter
“A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.” – Mel Brooks
“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
“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
“Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.” – Louis Armstrong
“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 gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” – Roy Ayers
“My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me.” – Gerard Way
“Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.” – Dave Matthews
“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
“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” – Martin Luther
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“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
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” – Haruki Murakami
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley
“I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.” – James Taylor
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Any good music must be an innovation.” – Les Baxter
“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
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse
“Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.” – Jeff Lynne
“Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
“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
“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
“Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.” – Cecilia Bartoli
“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
“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” – William James
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.” – Eminem
“Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” ― Aaron Copland
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
“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
“Music is like a huge release of tension.” – James Taylor
“I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.” – Wiz Khalifa
“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
“I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues.” – Duke Ellington
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson
“Music — what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” – Maria August von Trapp
“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
“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.” – Darren Criss
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou
“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky
“Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.” – Herbie Hancock
“Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono
“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
“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
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” – Claude Debussy
“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
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” – Marcel Marceau
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ― W.H. Auden
“Where words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” – Josh Homme
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” – Confucius
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley
“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 is… a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Jean Paul
“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
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” – Martin Luther
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp
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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
“Music comes to me more readily than words.” – Ludwig Van Beethoven
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” – Maurice Ravel
“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
“If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.” – Emma Goldman
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” – Plato
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“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
“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
“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
“I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” – Kenny Rogers
“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 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
“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
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” – E. Y. Harburg
“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
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot
“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
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” – Leonard Bernstein
“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” – Jason Mraz
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” – Louis Armstrong
“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
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
“Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” – Chet Atkins
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” – Tom Waits
Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ― Johnny Depp
“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 moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ” – Leopold Stokowski
“Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius
“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
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” – Modest Mouse
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.” – Robert Browning
“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
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein
“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” – Jane Swan
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark
“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.” – Louis Armstrong
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp
“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.” – Jacques Barzun
“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
“Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.” – Gene Simmons
“Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.” – Damon Albarn
