50 Inspiring Quotes About Music

Music possesses an extraordinary ability to transcend boundaries, evoking emotions and creating connections across cultures and generations. It's a universal language that speaks to the soul, offering solace, joy, and a reflection of the human experience. In this collection, we've gathered 50 inspiring quotes about music from artists, writers, and thinkers who have captured its transformative power through words. Whether you're a musician, an avid listener, or someone who simply appreciates the magic of melody, these quotes will resonate with your love for this timeless art form. Let them remind you of music's enduring impact and how it continues to inspire and enrich our lives.

1. “I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.” - Bob Dylan

2. “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” - George Eliot

3. “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

4. “Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!” - Jerry Lee Lewis

5. “Life is a pigsty.” - Morrissey

6. “Good music always defeats bad luck.” - Jack Vance

7. “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” - Sir James Barrie

8. “I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.” - Donald Miller

9. “Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.” - Jason Mraz

10. “Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.” - Yann Martel

11. “sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.” - Fall Out Boy

12. “There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.” - james frey

13. “nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by playing a piece of musicour ears are now in excellent condition.” - John Cage

14. “Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created."Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?”“No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her.“Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered.“Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.” - Anne Bishop

15. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” - Lao Tzu

16. “You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art” - LaMar Boschman

17. “I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.” - Taylor Swift

18. “No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.” - Chuck Palahniuk

19. “But no, music lasted longer than anything it inspired. After LPs, cassettes, and CDs, when matrimony was about to decay into its component elements—alimony and acrimony—the songs startled him and regained all their previous, pre-Rachel meanings, as if they had not only conjured her but then dismissed her, as if she had been entirely their illusion. He listened to the old songs again, years later on that same dark promenade, when every CD he had ever owned sat nestled in that greatest of all human inventions, the iPod, dialed up and yielding to his fingertip’s tap. The songs now offered him, in exchange for all he had lost, the sensation that there was something still to long for, still, something still approaching, and all that had gone before was merely prologue to an unimaginably profound love yet to seize him. If there was any difference now, it was only that his hunger for music had become more urgent, less a daily pleasure than a daily craving.” - Arthur Phillips

20. “Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.” - Haruki Murakami

21. “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.” - Ludwig van Beethoven

22. “Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ” - Arnold Bennett

23. “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ” - Paul Simon

24. “want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey.” - Blake Lewis

25. “...And you're the only one who knows.” - Billy Joel

26. “But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin.” - Linkin Park

27. “Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.” - Francesca Lia Block

28. “Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.” - Luciano Pavarotti

29. “Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical.” - Conan O'Brien

30. “I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.” - Elvis Costello

31. “If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.” - CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

32. “All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.” - Joe Hill

33. “It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.” - Maria Àngels Anglada

34. “He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.” - Antony John

35. “‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley” - Lynn Weingarten

36. “Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.” - Robert Fripp

37. “The music world is where child prodigies go to die.” - Haruki Murakami

38. “No angel born in hell could break that satan's spell.” - Don McLean

39. “Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!” - Veronika Carnaby

40. “Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it this way: 'Eat your heart out on a plastic tray,' say the Sex Pistols. Now, we know where to buy the tray and what the heart tastes like.” - Josh Kun

41. “Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.” - Simon S. Tam

42. “She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.” - Nathan Reese Maher

43. “If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that...then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you...” - T.O.P

44. “At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.” - Jennifer Paynter

45. “Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.” - Keith Richards

46. “Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.” - Veronica Roth

47. “You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.” - Lou Brutus

48. “Start with your heart, and only good can follow!” - Ocean

49. “Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor!” - Robin Benway

50. “It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.” - Julia Glass