50+ Music Quotes That Strike a Chord and Inspire Your Soul


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Music is a universal language that crosses boundaries and touches our souls. Its melodies and rhythms evoke deep emotions, spark cherished memories, and unite people in a symphony of shared experiences. Explore these quotes that celebrate music's incredible power to inspire and connect us.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me, I can't help it.

Elvis Presley

Music is really driving my whole life.  Ariana Grande

Music is really driving my whole life.

Ariana Grande

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Beethoven

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

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

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes - The Collected Poems

Good music will always be recognized in the end.  Min Yoongi

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

Min Yoongi

Ah, music, he said, wiping his eyes. A magic beyond all we do here!

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.

Jung Hoseok

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley - Music at Night and Other Essays

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

Maya Angelou

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Kim Namjoon

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur William Edgar

Some people have lives; some people have music.  John Green

Some people have lives; some people have music.

John Green

If we helped your dream and your life a bit by our existence, our music, our performance, our pictures, or videos, even if it’s not big, if we could reduce your pain from 100 to 99, 98 or 97, that makes our existence worthy.

Park Jimin

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Taylor Swift

Where words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

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 Jr.

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 Jr.

And, in the end, The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Taylor Swift

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

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

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again!

William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Nick Hornby

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

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The only truth is music.

Jack Kerouac

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Loving music is unlocking the door to imagination and letting it roam free.

Music mirrors our joys, sorrows, dreams, and hopes with every note.

The passion for music is a timeless affair that always leaves us craving more.

Embracing music is letting emotions sway to the rhythm of every tune.

Music is the quiet friend who understands us without speaking a word.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

Maggie Stiefvater - Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

Anna Akhmatova - The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Maya Angelou

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

Johnny Depp

Music is the heartbeat of life, constantly propelling us forward.

To cherish music is to embrace life in all its richness and splendor.

Each song reflects our essence and aspirations, revealing who we are and who we wish to be.

In the pulse of a song, we find the harmony often missing from our lives.

Music is the art of dreaming with the heart and resonating with the soul.

Music is the art of dreaming with the heart and resonating with the soul.

Discovering the perfect melody is like finding a slice of pure joy.

Music walks with us through life's highs and lows, ever the loyal companion.

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