Music Quote

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Music is a part of every known society, past and present, and is common to all human cultures across the globe.

The emotions caused by music, the attitudes of its composers and players, and the venues it is played can also vary from time to time and place to place. The music one person loves might be painful for another to listen to, and vice versa!

These music quotes tell us what music is, how it makes us feel when we play or listen to it, and how powerful it can be.

Whether you love Classical, Jazz, Country, Rock, or Pop, you’ll also find music quotes from some of your favorite musicians and composers. Put on your favorite playlist and enjoy!

Quotes About Music

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

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

“Music is life itself.” – Louis Armstrong

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”– John Paul Friedrich Richter

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

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

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

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”– Alphonse de Lamartine

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

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”– Thomas Fuller

“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

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

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

“Where words fail, music speaks.”– Hans Christian Anderson

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

“Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

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

“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.”– Josh Homme

“A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”– Guy de Maupassant

“Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”– Baruch Spinoza

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

“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

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

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

“Philosophy is the highest music.”– Plato

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”– Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”– G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

“The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”– John Green

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

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

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

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”– Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

“Country music is three chords and the truth.”– Harlan Howard

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

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

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”– Albert Schweitzer

“Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius

Quotes About Writing, Playing, and Listening to music