"Music can change the world because it can change people."
- Bono
Empowerment
"Music can change the world because it can change people"
- Bono
Inspiration
"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Creativity
"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
Healing
"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
- Jimi Hendrix
Change
"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe."
- Whitney Houston
Belief in Self
"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
Empowerment
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Motivation
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Creativity
"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
- Billy Joel
Empowerment
"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."
- Johannes Brahms
Hard Work
"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Determination
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
- Leonard Bernstein
Inspiration
"Music is a high revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Philosophy
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
- Alban Berg
Hard Work
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
- J.S. Bach
Determination
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
- Frederic Chopin
Simplicity
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist."
- Robert Schumann
Responsibility
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
- Maurice Ravel
Belief in Self
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
- Dmitri Shostakovich
Perseverance
"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."
- Malcolm Arnold
Connection to Earth
"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Persistence
"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water."
- Ray Charles
Belief in Self
"You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready."
- Bruno Mars
Taking Risks
"Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it."
- Aretha Franklin
Self-confidence
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there"
- Miles Davis
Creativity
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Knowledge
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
- Pablo Casals
Creativity
"Life is a lot like jazz…it’s best when you improvise."
- George Gershwin
Creativity
"Music begins where the possibilities of language end."
- Jean Sibelius
Creativity
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Wisdom
"Music is the transporter. The carrier. It carries the inspiration, the message, the healing."
- Carlos Santana
Inspiration
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
Creativity
"I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure."
- Moby
Resilience
"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
- Stevie Nicks
Aspirations
"Don't let your music be defined by genre labels"
- Bonobo
Adaptation
"Music was a vector we wanted to build a universe around"
- Thomas Bangalter, Daft Punk
Vision
"As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist"
- Armin van Buuren
Creativity
"No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'"
- Skrillex
Adaptation
"If you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there's more of a chance that you'll get somewhere that nobody else did"
- Brian Eno
Taking Risks
"I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart."
- Hans Zimmer
Simplicity
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
- Bob Marley
Healing
"Where words fail, music speaks."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Creativity
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
- Roy Ayers
Connection to Earth
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Awareness
"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Creativity
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach
Healing
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
- Maya Angelou
Healing
"I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others."
- James Taylor
Responsibility
"Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people."
- Prince
Belief in Self
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Inspiration
"Don't be a prisoner of your own style!"
- Armin van Buuren
Adaptation
"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."
- Beyoncé
Growth
"Just keep going. You never know how far you can go."
- Gunna
Perseverance
"Music is the universal language of mankind"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Connection to Earth
"Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work."
- George Gershwin
Hard Work
"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Ambition
"We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters."
- Eddie Van Halen
Focus
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
- Claude Debussy
Creativity
"Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them."
- Louis Armstrong
Resilience
"If music be the food of love, play on."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?"
- Dave Grohl
Originality
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
- Leonard Bernstein
Determination
"I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter."
- Nicki Minaj
Belief in Self
"I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
Change
"One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it."
- Madonna
Self-awareness
"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."
- Franz Joseph Haydn
Originality
"Imagination creates reality."
- Richard Wagner
Imagination
"Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity."
- Zoltan Kodaly
Contribution
"And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light."
- Chris Cornell
Hope
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
- W. H. Auden
Philosophy
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
- Thomas Carlyle
Spirituality
"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
- Paul Simon
Growth
"Music is the soundtrack of your life."
- Dick Clark
Reflection
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato
Creativity
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
- Leo Tolstoy
Empathy
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul
Hope
"Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it."
- Jean-Michel Jarre
Adaptation
"When you play, never mind who listens to you"
- Robert Schumann
Bravery
"Every track starts with a single, strong idea"
- Hannes Bieger
Creativity
"For every hour of recording, have two hours of laughter in the studio"
- Quincy Jones
Balance
"Less is more"
- Rone
Simplicity
"There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across."
- Rick Rubin
Efficiency
"In the right context, you can make ugly sounds (…) feel right at home."
- Flume
Creativity
"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious"
- Lester Bangs
Joy
"I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better."
- Georg Frideric Handel
Contribution
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
- Leonard Bernstein
Ambition
"To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better."
- Giuseppe Verdi
Originality
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it."
- Aaron Copland
Hope
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
- Gustav Mahler
Persistence
"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise."
- George Gershwin
Awareness
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
- Igor Stravinsky
Creativity
"Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity."
- Gustav Holst
Spirituality
"Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity."
- Giacchino Rossini
Motivation
"There is only one real happiness in life and that is the happiness of creating."
- Frederick Delius
Joy
"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
- Robert Schumann
Creativity
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
Boldness
"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
- Charles Ives
Creativity
"I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Ambition
"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."
- Franz Schubert
Empathy
"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."
- Giacomo Puccini
Inspiration
"I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices."
- Sergei Prokofiev
Originality
"There is nothing like practice."
- Alan Hovhaness
Hard Work
"In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe."
- Alexander Scriabin
Spirituality
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
- Franz Liszt
Creativity
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
- Aaron Copland
Creativity
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
- Luciano Berio
Transformation
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
- Igor Stravinsky
Awareness
"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
- Robert Schumann
Motivation
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
- Igor Stravinsky
Philosophy
"People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here."
- Kendrick Lamar
Motivation
"Music is a form of prayer."
- Toru Takemitsu
Spirituality
"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
- Virgil Thomson
Belief
"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."
- Gustav Mahler
Determination
"An artist's sphere of influence is the world."
- Carl Maria von Weber
Influence
"The end of all good music is to affect the soul."
- Claudio Monteverdi
Inspiration
"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
- Maurice Ravel
Empathy
"Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love."
- Hector Berlioz
Love
"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
- Duke Ellington
Self-improvement
"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
Success
"I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do."
- J. Cole
Belief
"In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself."
- Post Malone
Self-awareness
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
- John Lennon
Contentment
"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."
- Amy Winehouse
Adversity
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Simplicity
"Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand."
- Carl Orff
Education
"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
- Charles Ives
Philosophy
"I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned."
- Elvis Presley
Awareness
"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
- Elliott Carter
Creativity
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
- Franz Liszt
Adversity
"I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear."
- Giuseppe Verdi
Empathy
"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are."
- Jay-Z
Self-awareness
"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
- Edgard Varese
Philosophy
"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety."
- Felix Mendelssohn
Philosophy
"Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations."
- Alexander Borodin
Balance
"The best musicians are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians."
- Aphex Twin
Belief in Self
"Music is the strongest form of magic."
- Marilyn Manson
Creativity
"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."
- Adele
Creativity
"Music should be your escape."
- Missy Elliot
Healing
"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
- Franz Schubert
Creativity
"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
- George Bizet
Philosophy
"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."
- Arnold Schoenberg
Philosophy
"Competitions are for horses, not artists."
- Bela Bartok
Belief in Self
"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."
- Modest Mussorgsky
Contribution
"The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping."
- Benjamin Britten
Balance
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- Louis Hector Berlioz
Philosophy
"It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Motivation
"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
- Richard Strauss
Self-awareness
"Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature’s need."
- Richard Wagner
Belief
"The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest."
- Erik Satie
Self-awareness
"You never know the plan. You never know what's going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time."
- Morgan Wallen
Mindfulness
"Without loyalty, you won't accomplish anything."
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Determination
"If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me."
- Mitski
Self-awareness
"I always said God was against art and I still believe it."
- Edward Elgar
Philosophy
"Art is not only about angst."
- John Corigliano
Awareness
"I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic."
- Lana Del Rey
Faith
"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought"
- Anonymous
Philosophy
"Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong"
Persistence