The Top 78 Music Quotes for World Day of Music

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Music is one of the most expressive forms of communication. With that in mind, check out the top 78 music quotes.

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#78 – 70. Music Quotes

78. Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it. – Chet Atkins

77. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals

76. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. – John Erskine

75. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. – George Eliot

74. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

73. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley

72. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine

71. As long as we live, there is never enough singing. – Martin Luther

70. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. – Thomas Fuller

#69 – 60. Music Quotes

69. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp

68. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. – G.K. Chesterton

67. Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

66. Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. ― Ludwig van Beethoven

65. 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

64. Life is one grand sweet song so start the music. – Ronald Reagan

63. Music is love in search of a word. – Sidney Lanier

62. Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

61. Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. – Napoleon Bonaparte

60. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. – Victor Hugo

#59 – 50. Music Quotes

59. 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

58. I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. ― Morrissey

57. 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

56. Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson

55. The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. – Pete Seeger

54. Music gives color to the air of the moment. – Karl Lagerfeld

53. Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

52. The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. – W.H. Auden

51. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. – Lao Tzu

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

#49 – 40. Music Quotes

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

48. I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. – William James

47. If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. – Vera Nazarin

46. Country music is three chords and the truth. – Harlan Howard

45. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwar Lytton

44. 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

43. If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. – Louis Armstrong

42. 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

41. He who sings frightens away his ills. – Miguel de Cervantes

40. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. – Oscar Wilde

#39 – 30. Music Quotes

39. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert G. Ingersoll

38. Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein

37. Where words fail, music speaks. – Hans Christian Anderson

36. The only truth is music. – Jack Kerouac

35. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

34. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. – Benjamin Disraeli

33. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. – Leo Tolstoy

32. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. – Tom Waits

31. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. – Kahlil Gibran

30. Philosophy is the highest music. – Plato

#29 – 20. Music Quotes

29. 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

28. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

27. Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius

26. Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. – Ray Charles

25. Music — what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! – Maria August von Trapp

24. 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

23. 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

22. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach

21. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. – Johnny Depp

20. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

#19 – 10. Music Quotes

19. Music is the soundtrack of your life. – Dick Clark

18. Without music, life would be a blank to me. – Jane Austen

17. Love is friendship set to music. – Jackson Pollock

16. I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. – John Barrowman

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

14. Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. – Rebbe Nachman

13. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius

12. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable, I see no foe, I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest. – Henry David Thoreau

11. 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

10. Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. – Josh Homme