Short Quotes About Music | Best Inspirational Musically quotes about life with image
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
— Oscar Wilde
Music is the universal language of mankind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.
— Johnny Depp
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.
― Debasish Mridha
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
― Michael Bassey Johnson
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
— John Erskine
If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
— Vera Nazarian
Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.
— John Lennon
Music is life Quotes
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
— Kahlil Gibran
Music is life itself.
— Louis Armstrong
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
— Plato
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
— John Paul Friedrich Richter
Music is the emotional life of most people.
— Leonard Cohen
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
— Nina Simone
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Life and love go on, let the music play.
— Johnny Cash
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.
— Herbie Hancock
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
— Igor Stravinsky
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
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
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
— Sergei Rachmaninov
I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.
— Bryce Anderson
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
— Hans Christian Anderson
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is 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, The Last Song
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
— Langston Hughes
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
— Dick Clark
Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.
— Ronald Reagan
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
— Jane Austen
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Berthold Auerbach
Without music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Music Love Quotes
Love is friendship set to music.
— Jackson Pollock
If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.
— Pete Doherty
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
— James Taylor
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
Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
— Steve Maraboli
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, Twelfth Night
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
— Osho
Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.
— Orson Scott Card
The more you love music, the more music you love.
— Tom Moon
Music is love in search of a word.
— Sidney Lanier
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
— Thomas Fuller
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.
— Gene Simmons
Music can change the world.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
— Bruce Springsteen
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
— Billy Joel
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
— Franz Joseph Haydn
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
— Claude Debussy
To play without passion is inexcusable!
— Ludwig van Beethoven
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?
— Dave Grohl
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
— Edward Elgar
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
— Bob Marley
Music can change the world because it can change people.
— Bono
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.
— Kenny Rogers
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
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
— Frédéric Chopin
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
— Shania Twain
Music is my religion.
— Jimi Hendrix
You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
— Jason Mraz
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
— Gustav Mahler
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
— Paul Simon
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
— David Bowie
Music comes from a place we don’t know.
— Chris Martin
Music is a safe kind of high.
— Jimi Hendrix
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
— Louis Armstrong
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
— Ray Charles
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
— Duke Ellington
Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!
— Maria von Trapp
Music should be your escape.
— Missy Elliot
My music isn’t just music – its medicine.
— Kanye West
People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.
— Taylor Swift
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
— Aaron Copland
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
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.
— Bono
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
— Frank Zappa
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.
— Kurt Vonnegut
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
— Martin Luther
My ambition was to live like music.
— Mary Gaitskill
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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
— Elton John
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
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
— Lao Tzu
Music should be an essential part of every analysis.
— Carl Jung
Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.
— Douglas Adams
Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
— Pete Seeger
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
— Maya Angelou
Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
— Colbie Caillat
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
— Maya Angelou
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
— Robert Browning
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
— Yip Harburg
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
— Criss Jami
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
— Bob Marley
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
— Edgar Winter
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.
— Truman Capote
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese Proverb
You are the music while the music lasts.
— T.S. Eliot
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
— Arthur O’Shaughnessy
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
— Pat Conroy
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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
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 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
Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
— Sarah Churchwell
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
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 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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
— Robert Fripp
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
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
— Tom Waits
He who sings frightens away his ills.
— Miguel de Cervantes
When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
— Alan Watts
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa – Who knows most, knows least.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
— Rebbe Nachman
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
— Emory Austin
As long as we live, there is never enough singing.
— Martin Luther
A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
— Robert McKee
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
— William James
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
— Pete Seeger
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
— W.H. Auden
I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
— John Barrowman
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
– Unknown
I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.
— Leila Sales
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
— Sun Tzu
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
— Martin Luther
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
— Roy Ayers
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
— Duke Ellington
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.
— Psy
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
— Joshua Logan
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
— Eddie Van Halen
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
— Louis Armstrong
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
— Jodi Picoult
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
— Marcel Marceau
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
— Leopold Stokowski
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
— Thomas Merton
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.
— Mark Twain
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
— Eric Clapton
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
— Edith Sitwell
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