100 Inspirational Quotes by Musicians to Ignite Your Passion and Creativity

"By staying true to your art, your vision, you can create something that did not exist otherwise, something beautiful, joyful, powerful and draped in meaning."

- Mark Rabideau

"An artist’s musical experience is as unique as his or her life experience; finding a way of capturing that unique set of experiences and using one’s skills to turn them into meaningful art is the path to being an extraordinary musician in the 21st century."

- Judd Greenstein

"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

"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

"I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do."

- J. Cole

"In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself."

- Post Malone

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"Just keep going. You never know how far you can go."

- Gunna

"I put so much pressure on myself. I'm my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time."

- Polo G

"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

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"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

"When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better."

- Mac Miller

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

- David Bowie

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."

- Drake

"I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters."

- SZA

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."

- Cher

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

- Jimi Hendrix

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks... I ain't finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am."

- Kodak Black

"If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first."

- BTS RM

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

- Bono

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

- Igor Stravinsky

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

- Robert Schumann

"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

- Dmitri Shostakovich

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

"It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do."

- Marcus Miller

"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 a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same."

- John Denver

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

- Roy Ayers

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

- Billy Joel

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

- Plato

"Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success in the music industry isn’t something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day."

- Simon S. Tam

"Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity."

- Ari Herstand

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself."

- Seth Godin

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

- Bob Marley

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

- Plato

"Don’t let your music be defined by genre labels"

- Bonobo

"Life is what happens when you’re making other plans."

- John Lennon

"You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions."

- Steve Case

"Music was a vector we wanted to build a universe around"

- Thomas Bangalter, Daft Punk

"Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music."

- Carlos Santana

"No one worries about genre when they’re dancing. They’re not asking themselves, ‘Is this song a dubstep song?'"

- Skrillex

"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

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

- Pablo Casals

"Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind."

- Mick Jagger

"Curiosity is the most important skill an entrepreneur can have. No matter where you are in a business you have to constantly challenge your assumptions and ask questions of your customers, your team, your partners, and most importantly yourself. Question your wins, losses, and everything in between."

- Joe Conyers

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

- J.S. Bach

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment."

- Chris S. Salazar

"And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now."

- Trent Reznor

"I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me."

- DMX

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

"At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds."

- John McLaughlin

"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."

- American singer-songwriter

"Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"In the right context, you can make ugly sounds (…) feel right at home."

- Flume

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

- Neil Diamond

"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

"I’ve spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn’t reach the heart."

- Hans Zimmer

"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

"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

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light."

- Chris Cornell

"All musicians are potential band leaders."

- Thelonious Monk

"My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool."

- Romeo Santos

"The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me."

- Kali Uchis

"Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief."

- Dave Grohl

"I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense."

- Hozier

"I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me."

- Rihanna

"Without loyalty, you won't accomplish anything."

- YoungBoy Never Broke Again

"You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you."

- DJ Khaled

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

- Thomas Carlyle

"I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That's my motto."

- Melanie Martinez

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak."

- William Congreve

"You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible."

- Frank Ocean

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."

- Bob Dylan

"True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind."

- Kevin Gates

"It's not just about being sexy, it's about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality."

- Megan Thee Stallion

"The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

- Elvis Presley

"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."

- Amy Winehouse

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious"

- Lester Bangs

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic."

- Lana Del Rey

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

- Henry Rollins

"I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature."

- The Notorious B.I.G.

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

- Bruce Springsteen

"If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me."

- Mitski

"I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona."

- MF Doom

"I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written."

- Lil Baby

"The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are."

- The Weeknd

"You really don't find too many good people. You really don't. Keep them around."

- Playboi Carti

"You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way."

- Bruno Mars

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"If a girl have beef with me, she gon' have beef with me forever."

- Cardi B

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."

- Tom Waits

"Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong"

- Anonymous

"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought"

- Anonymous