60 Music Quotes That Show The Power Of Song

Whether you're a musician, a music lover, or simply someone who appreciates the power of a melody, these quotes will remind you of music's ability to touch our hearts and minds, summon emotion, and create connection.

Music Quotes About Life

• “Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference.” — Herbie Hancock
• “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
• “Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” ― Goldie Hawn
• “Life and love go on, let the music play.” — Johnny Cash
• “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” — Dick Clark
• “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” — Ray Charles
• “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
• “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” — Elton John
• “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
• “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
• “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer
• “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ― George Eliot

Deep Music Quotes

• “Without music, life would be a mistake.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou
• “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley
• “Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” — Joshua Logan
• “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
• “Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ― Thomas Fuller
• “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” — Andrew Lloyd Webber
• “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” — Lao Tzu
• “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” — John Keats
• “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” — Paul Simon
• “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley
• “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” — Aaron Copland
• “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” — H. Auden
• “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” — Plato
• “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius

Powerful Music Quotes

• “Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” — Edgar Winter
• “He who sings frightens away his ills.” — Miguel de Cervantes
• “The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” — Roy Ayers
• “Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ― Alex Gaskarth
• “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono
• “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
• “If music be the food of love, play on.” — William Shakespeare
• “Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.” — Gene Simmons
• “Music should be an essential part of every analysis.” — Carl Jung
• “The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen
• "Music can change the world." -Beethoven
• "Every song is like a painting." –Dick Dale

Short Music Quotes

• “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach
• “Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” — Shania Twain
• “Where words leave off, music begins.” — Heinrich Heine
• “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” — Leo Tolstoy
• “Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” — Josh Homme
• “Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier
• “The only truth is music.” — Jack Kerouac
• “Music is my religion.” — Jimi Hendrix
• “Music is healing. Music holds things together.” ― Prince
• “My ambition was to live like music.” — Mary Gaitskill
• “Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words” — Elie Wiesel
• “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” — Igor Stravinsky
• “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” — Jason Mraz
• “Music is the emotional life of most people.” — Leonard Cohen
• “You can cage the singer but not the song.” — Harry Belafonte
• “Music should be your escape.” — Missy Elliot
• “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim
• “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.” ― John Milton
• “Music is the universal language of mankind.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” ― Richard Nixon
• “Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen