44 Power Of Music Quotes

Music has a remarkable ability to transcend boundaries, touching hearts and minds across the globe. It serves as a universal language, capable of conveying emotions and stories without uttering a single word. In our fast-paced, often chaotic world, the power of music offers solace, inspiration, and a sense of connection. Whether it's the rhythm of a drum, the melancholic strum of a guitar, or the uplifting harmonies of a choir, music has a unique way of resonating with our innermost feelings. In this post, we have compiled a collection of 44 insightful and inspiring quotes that celebrate the profound influence of music in our lives. Dive in and let these words remind you of the extraordinary power that music holds.

1. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. “This machine kills fascists.” - Woody Guthrie

3. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” - Robert Fripp

4. “If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.” - Mark Helprin

5. “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” - Hunter S. Thompson

6. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” - Martin Luther

7. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” - Johann Sebastian Bach

8. “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

9. “Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.” - Helen Thompson

10. “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

11. “Where words leave off, music begins.” - Heinrich Heine

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

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

14. “The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.” - Martin Luther

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

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

17. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” - Marilyn Manson

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

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

20. “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” - George Eliot

21. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” - Frederick Delius

22. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

23. “A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]” - Martin Luther

24. “Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Andersen

25. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

26. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.” - Johnny Depp

27. “Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.” - Robert Browning

28. “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” - Chuck Klosterman

29. “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

30. “So stark ist der Zauber der Musik und, immer mächtiger werdend, musste er jede Fessel einer andern Kunst zerreißen."(Beethovens Instrumentalmusik)” - E.T.A. Hoffmann

31. “When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,there will be an answer, let it be.For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,there will be an answer. let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,shine until tomorrow, let it be.I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....” - Paul McCartney

32. “I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.” - Jennifer Donnelly

33. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” - Sarah Dessen

34. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” - Bono

35. “When words fail music speaks. ” - Irena Huang

36. “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!” - J.K. Rowling

37. “Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.” - Katherine Neville

38. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” - George Eliot

39. “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” - Colbie Caillat

40. “I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” - Bryce W. Anderson

41. “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

42. “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

43. “You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty pop song makes them feel good, about themselves and the world. And as long as that shitty pop song doesn’t infringe upon your rights to rock out to, I don’t know, Subway Sect, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, or whichever old-ass band it is you worship, then who cares?” - Hannah Harrington

44. “Music is a second language to my heart.” - Mara Arps