Music has a unique way of touching your heart and bringing people together across cultures and experiences. These 60 quotes capture its beauty, power, and timeless ability to express what words often cannot.
Music Quotes
- “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals
- “Music can change the world because it can change people.” — Bono
- “Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen
- “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” — Plato
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.” — Kahlil Gibran
- One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley
- “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo
- “Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley
- “Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach
- “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” — Hans Christian Andersen
- “Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” — William Shakespeare
- “Music is the strongest form of magic.” — Marilyn Manson
- “The only truth is music.” — Jack Kerouac
- “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
- “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
- “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals
- “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” — Confucius
- “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” — George Eliot
- “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” — Paul Simon
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
- “The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” — Psy
- “Music gives a face to the name of what we feel but cannot express.” — Debasish Mridha
- “Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” — Shania Twain
- “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” — Maria Augusta von Trapp
- “Where words leave off, music begins.” — Heinrich Heine
- “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” — Jason Mraz
- People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” — Taylor Swift
- “Music fills the infinite between two souls.” — Rabindranath Tagore
- “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
- “Music gives color to the air of the moment.” — Karl Lagerfeld
- “Without music, we would be incomplete.” — Khushwant Singh
- “Music is a safe kind of high.” — Jimi Hendrix
- “When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” — Frank Ocean
- “Music is life itself.” — Louis Armstrong
- “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” — Lao Tzu
- “Music brings harmony to the world.” — Yoko Ono
- “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” — Johnny Depp
- “Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” — Thomas Carlyle
- “Music is an outburst of the soul.” — Frederick Delius
- “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” — Frank Zappa
- “Music is a world within itself. It is a language we all understand.” — Stevie Wonder
- “Music gives me strength, and I love it for that.” — Natasha Bedingfield
- “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” — Robert Fripp
- “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” — Sergei Rachmaninoff
- “Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” — Dick Clark
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
- “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “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 makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.” — William Green
- “Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier
- “Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” — Plato
