Most Inspiring Music Quotes(110) of All Time | GOOBAYE

Here are some top music quotes to help you stay active.

Music can be used to inspire. Music can help you get motivated for big events, forget your worries, or just to have a good time.

Sometimes the lyrics can be the inspiration. In this case, the song probably already contains an inspirational quote.

Here are the top ten inspirational quotes about music we can all use to remind us how powerful music is.

Music Quotes

Because music can change people, it can change the world. Bono

Beautiful melodies can tell me horrible things. - Tom Waits

Music is the universal language for all people. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music's territory is the environment. It allows us to rediscover ourselves. - Michael Jackson

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

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Music is for the soul what words and phrases are to the brain. Modest Mouse

 

Music is a universe within itself with a language that we all can understand. - Stevie Wonder

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution. - Emma Goldman

Music is the language that carries the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

The dust of daily life is washed away by music. Berthold Auerbach

Music is the only language that you can't say a mean or sarcastic word. - John Erskine

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Birds don't sing because they have an answer. It sings because it knows a song. - Chinese proverb

Music is a wonderful thing. When it hits you, there is no pain. Bob Marley

Sung everything that is too stupid for words to be said. - Voltaire

The Best Music Quotes

A great song should lift you up, make your soul happy and bring out the best in you. - Colbie Caillat

Music speaks where words fail. Hans Christian Andersen

Music can be likened to a massive release of tension. James Taylor

Music is like a dream. One I can't hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Some people live their lives, while others have music. John Green

Music is the moonlight in the dark night of life. Jean Paul

Once music is accepted into the soul, it becomes a kind of spirit that never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Music is life's greatest gift. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is medicine for the mind. John Logan

I love to sing and to drink scotch. People would prefer to hear me drinking scotch. George Burns

Music fills me up and I feel like life goes on effortlessly. - George Eliot

Music should ignite the soul of man and bring tears to the eyes of women. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Children and animals are the best people to understand my music. - Igor Stravinsky

Music is healing in its own right, I believe. It is a powerful expression of humanity. It is something that touches us all. Music is something that everyone loves, regardless of where they come from. - Billy Joel

Music is the moonlight in a dark night of life. - John Paul Friedrich Richter

Music is a way to express what cannot be said or on which it's impossible to speak. - Victor Hugo

Famous Music Quotes

Music is not found in the notes but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is the soundtrack to your life. Dick Clark

 

Those who saw people dancing were thought to have lost the ability to hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is not a lie. Music is the only way to change the world. - Jimi Hendrix

Music has power. People can be affected by music when they listen to it. They will respond. Ray Charles

Music is the best way to soothe and lift your soul. Mickey Hart

Music is the strongest form magic. - Marilyn Manson

Although I have never understood any music, I feel it. - Igor Stravinsky

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

Finding your gift is the meaning of life. Giving it away is the purpose of life. - Pablo Picasso

My musical tastes range from "you must listen to this now" to "i know, please do not judge me."

Music is the divine way of telling beautiful, poetic things from the heart. - Pablo Casals

Music can touch us emotionally in a way words cannot. Johnny Depp

When I drive, I must listen to calm music. It stops road rage. - Aaron Paul

Music is not a language that speaks in specific words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. Keith Richards

Inspirational Music Quotes

Music can bring order to chaos. - Yehudi Menuhin

Music and cats are the two main refuges from the trials of life. - Albert Schweitzer

Music is the only thing that I know that doesn't follow any rules. Josh Homme

Are I listening to pop music to make me miserable, or because it makes me happy? John Cusack

Music is the closest thing to expressing the inexpressible after silence. Aldous Huxley

Music is a moral law. It is the soul of the universe, the spirit of the universe, the wings of the mind, the flight of the imagination, the charm and the gaiety for life and all that it represents. Plato

Music can bring you a sense of joy that is unmatched by human nature. - Confucius

It is sad, it is true, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. Beauty of failure and unsatisfying love. The harsh beauty of nature and the everlasting beauty that is monotony. - Benjamin Britten

Music is love in search for a word. - Sidney Lanier

Music can bring people together. Music allows us to share the same emotions. - John Denver

It is amazing that music can evoke our laughter, fears, and highest aspirations. - Jane Swan

Take a deep, slow breath. Allow the music to flow through your body. Allow yourself to be awed by it. Allow the music's beauty to touch your soul when you play. Kelly White

If music were my only form of entertainment, I would listen to your music endlessly, and my darkest days would be brightened. - Anna Akhmatova

Music is the only true magic I have ever seen in my entire life. It doesn't require any tricks. It is pure and real. It heals, moves, communicates and does amazing things. - Tom Petty

Music Quotes

It's a horrible feeling when I sing a song but the artist misunderstands the lyrics. Unknown

Music is a way to express feelings and thoughts without using language. It was before and below speech and it is beyond and beyond any words. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Music comes from somewhere we don't know. Chris Martin

Music has always been there for my needs, even though people haven't always been there. - Taylor Swift

Music is more powerful than wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is an expression of the soul. - Frederick Delius

You can run naked down the street if you want to become a rock star, or just make it big. If music is your livelihood, you need to play, play, and play again! You'll eventually get there. - Eddie Van Halen

I wanted to show the sustaining power music has on me. - David Bowie

Beautiful music is the art and gift of the prophets to calm the soul's agitations. It is one of God's most wonderful and charming gifts. Martin Luther

Music is the most popular and well-known language in the world. Psy

Music is both good and bad for the melancholy. It's also good for those who mourn. - Baruch Spinoza

Music was my only true love. Maurice Ravel

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. Edgar Winter

Pop music can tell you everything's fine, while rock music will tell you it's not. But you can make it better. Bono

Music is constantly changing, and music changes can be unpredictable. Billy Sheehan

Only we can liberate our minds. Bob Marley

You have the sun and the moon, you can breathe the air you breathe, and you have The Rolling Stones. Keith Richards

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It brings the pain out into the open and out of the shadows. Reba McEntire

Music Quotes: A Few Short Thoughts

While the music lasts, you are the music. T.S. Eliot

Progress is impossible if you don't follow the rules. - Frank Zappa

Some people live their lives, while others have music. John Green

True music must reflect the thoughts and inspirations of the people at the time. George Gershwin

Music transcends language. - Herbie Hancock

A great song should lift you up, make your soul happy and bring out the best in you. - Colbie Caillat

They play only what they are capable of mastering. Duke Ellington

Music is the closest thing to expressing the inexpressible after silence. Aldous Huxley

Music is both the art of the prophets, and the gift from God. Martin Luther

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Music is my life. - Jane Austen

The Word of God is second, but the most treasured thing in the world is the noble art and music. Martin Luther

Every day that passes without us dancing at least once should be considered. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music is not something I care about. Sounds are what I love. Dizzy Gillespie

Music is not my job. It is more about taste, culture, and balance. Rick Rubin

Because music and silence are inseparable, silence is full music. Marcel Marceau

Music is fluid architecture to me. - Joni Mitchell

We are the music-makers, and we are also the dreamers of our dreams. Arthur William Edgar

Music is the only truth. Jack Kerouac

When soft voices cease to exist, music vibrates in the mind. Percy Bysshe Shelley

One who hears music feels his solitude filled at once. Robert Browning

Music has a way of softening the blows, no matter how hard life can throw at you. Bryce Anderson

Every song is a painting. - Dick Dale

Jazz is more than music. It's also a way to live, a way to be, and a way to think. - Nina Simone

Music can be a great escape and a natural high. - Shania Twain

Everything in the universe is a dancer. - Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quotes about Music and Life

You must combine the black and white notes to create beautiful music. - Richard M. Nixon

It's impossible to stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. Van Morrison

Music is an acceptable harmony for God's honor and the permitted delights of the spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

If I wasn't a physicist I would likely be a musician. Music is my life. My life is a reflection of music. - Albert Einstein

Music is for the soul what words and phrases are for the mind. Modest Mouse

Music was a part of me from birth. Music was one part of me. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was already a part of me when I came to the scene. It was an absolute necessity for me, just like water and food. Ray Charles

Information is not knowledge. Wisdom is not knowledge. Wisdom is not truth. Beauty is not truth. Beauty is not the same as love. Music is not love. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa

People ask me how I make music. They ask me how I make music. I simply tell them that I just step into it. It's almost like walking into a river to join the flow. Every moment of the river has its own song. - Michael Jackson

People feel homesick when they hear great music. E. W. Howe

The best music is there to give you something to face your world with. Bruce Springsteen

The singer can be caged, but the song cannot. Harry Belafonte

Music is everywhere if you look deeply enough. - Thomas Carlyle

Songs can be as sad or happy as the listener. Jonathan Safran Foer

Music is an integral part of the emotional life for most people. Leonard Cohen

If Music is a Place, then Jazz is the City. Folk is the Wilderness. Rock is the Road. Classical is the Temple. - Vera Nazarian

Deep Music Quotes

I took the energy to laugh and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington

My music will continue on forever. It may sound silly to say this, but facts are facts. My music will continue on forever. Bob Marley

Blues is my life. It is a genuine feeling that comes from the heart and not just out of my mouth. Blues is my passion, and blues is all I do. Koko Taylor

Music is not the same as becoming a doctor. You can't just walk into a town and see people who need you. - Charlie Byrd

A good opera plot cannot be sensible. People don't sing when they feel sensible. W. H. Auden

Music is the movement and sound that reaches the soul to educate its virtue. Plato

 

Every good piece of music is a reflection of something. Music that stirs emotion is good music. Jean Cocteau

 

Although I have never understood any music, I feel it. - Igor Stravinsky

It's amazing to see the extent music can take you. - Luke Bryan

It was then that I realized music is the most powerful and magical form of communication. - Lesley Garrett

I look at you, and I write down the things I hear. Virgil Thomson

Music is the fourth greatest material need, after food and clothing, shelter, and music. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It can be very powerful when music and words are combined. - Bryan Ferry

Someone just gave me a shower speaker. Thanks a lot. Is it really necessary to have music in the shower? There is no better place than a smooth surface near a glass door to dance. Jerry Seinfeld

Music is a great way to connect with people. It's a way for us to express ourselves in a way that transcends words. It's probably the best part about us. Nick Hornby