50 Quotes About Music

Music touches our lives nearly every day, from the soundtrack of your favourite movie or the music playing in a local shop to the tunes blaring from a passing car or the gentle sounds playing from your home speaker. Even in your morning cup of coffee.

Music is everywhere.

The Curious Toad has scoured the interwebs in search of moving quotes create our own list of music quotes. Enjoy!

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50 Quotes About Music

1. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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

3. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” — Kahlil Gibran

4. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.” — Johnny Depp

5. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” — Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

10. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” — Maria von Trapp

11. “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach

12. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo

13. “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

14. “Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier

15. “Where words leave off, music begins.” — Heinrich Heine

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

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

18. “Music can change the world.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

19. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” — Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

20. “Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” — John Erskine

21. “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

22. “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” — Paul Simon

23. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” — George Eliot

24. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

25. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” — Leo Tolstoy

26. “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” — Gustav Mahler

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

28. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” — Robert Fripp

29. “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

30. “Music replays the past memories, awakens our forgotten worlds and makes our minds travel.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

31. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” — Johann Sebastian Bach

32. “Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” — Oscar Wilde

33. “Music is life itself.” — Louis Armstrong

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

35. “Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” — Leonard Bernstein

36. “Music gives color to the air of the moment.” — Karl Lagerfeld

37. “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

38. “Music is healing. Music holds things together.” — Prince

39. “Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” — Shania Twain

40. “Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

41. “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” — Ray Charles

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

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

44. “The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen

45. “Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” — Ronald Reagan

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

47. “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

48. “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” — Jason Mraz

49. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” — Elton John

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

Stay curious, and enjoy life!

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