50 Music Quotes to Remind Us All About the Power of Music

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

“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

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare

“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” ― Taylor Swift

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

“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

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is a mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ― Victor Hugo

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin

“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga

“I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” ― John Barrowman

“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” ― Oscar Wilde

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.” ― Rob Sheffield

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

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

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

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

“Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it” ― John Lennon

“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

“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” ― Michael Jackson

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ― Pat Conroy

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami

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

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” ― Yip Harburg

“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

“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 is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ― Alex Gaskarth

“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoleon

“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.” ― Laura Malone Elliott

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” ― Sergei Rachmaninov

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ― Anna Akhmatova

“Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars.” ― Margot Benary-Isbert

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

“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.” ― Imam Al-Ghazzali

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.” ― Nina LaCour

“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.” ― Suzanne Collins

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words” ― Elie Wiesel

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

“If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.” ― C.S. Lewis

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

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