Inspirational Music Quotes
Music transcends the boundaries of language, culture, and time, resonating with the very soul of humankind.
It’s no wonder that musicians, poets, philosophers, and great thinkers throughout history have sought to articulate the profound influence that music exerts over our hearts and minds.
This collection of inspirational music quotes offers a glimpse into the power of music, seen through the eyes of those who’ve known, loved, and breathed it.
Prepare to be inspired, enlightened, and moved by these captivating insights about the essence of music.
Inspirational Music Quotes
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland
“I’ve found time can heal most anything, and you just might find who you’re supposed to be.” – Taylor Swift
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” – Stevie Wonder
“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.” – Jimmy Page
“There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart.” – Carlos Santana
“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 can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.” – Oliver Sacks
“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…” – Albert Schweitzer
“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski
“When you play, never mind who listens to you.” – Robert Schumann
“I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” – Morrissey
“You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.” – Bruno Mars
“I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” – Adele
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.” – Ray Charles
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” – Maurice Ravel
“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
“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
Quotes About Music
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou
“Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp
“Where words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius
“Music is love in search of a word.” – Sidney Lanier
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach
“The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac
“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals
“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” – Stevie Wonder
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.” – Oscar Wilde
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” – Haruki Murakami
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp
“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
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” – Thomas Carlyle
“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 … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley
These quotes are not just about the art of music, but also about the lessons that musicians have learned on their creative journey. They remind us of the transformative power of music and the resilience it inspires within us. For more inspirational quotes, be sure to check out:
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