100 Inspirational Music Quotes to Uplift Your Soul and Spark Creativity

"Where words fail, music speaks."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

- Bono

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours."

- Elton John

"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Music…is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits."

- Corey Taylor

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

- Victor Hugo

"Where words leave off, music begins."

- Heinrich Heine

"Music is a world within itself, it’s a language we all understand."

- Stevie Wonder

"If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward."

- Sting

"Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!"

- Joss Stirling

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

- Lao Tzu

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you—and music is one of the most beautiful ways to learn."

- B.B. King

"Music is healing. Music holds things together."

- Prince

"Music is the transporter. The carrier. It carries the inspiration, the message, the healing."

- Carlos Santana

"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 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

"Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness."

- Jason Mraz

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference."

- Herbie Hancock

"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."

- Ray Charles

"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

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Aldous Huxley

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

- Plato

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

- Pablo Casals

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."

- Edgar Winter

"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

- Roy Ayers

"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

- Bob Marley

"If music be the food of love, play on."

- William Shakespeare

"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

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."

- Martin Luther

"When you're happy, you enjoy the music, but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

- Frank Ocean

"That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people, and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons."

- Dave Grohl

"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

- Billy Joel

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."

- Mark Twain

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."

- William James

"Music is the soundtrack of your life."

- Dick Clark

"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."

- Paul Simon

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."

- Aaron Copland

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

- Confucius

"Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have."

- Alex Gaskarth

"Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t."

- Gene Simmons

"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

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is love in search of a word."

- Sidney Lanier

"The only truth is music."

- Jack Kerouac

"Music is my religion."

- Jimi Hendrix

"A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good."

- Colbie Caillat

"I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Music is the emotional life of most people."

- Leonard Cohen

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."

- George Eliot

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

- Harry Belafonte

"Life and love go on, let the music play."

- Johnny Cash

"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

"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."

- Joshua Logan

"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you."

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

"The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable."

- H. Auden

"He who sings frightens away his ills."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Music should be an essential part of every analysis."

- Carl Jung

"Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all."

- Josh Homme

"My ambition was to live like music."

- Mary Gaitskill

"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words"

- Elie Wiesel

"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

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

- Richard Nixon

"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."

- David Levithan

"The more you love music, the more music you love."

- Tom Moon

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

- Leopold Stokowski

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."

- John Keats

"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words."

- Elie Wiesel

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

- Goldie Hawn

"If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be."

- Lauren Myracle

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

- Dolly Parton