Inspirational Music Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
– Jules Combarieu

“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

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”
– Confucious

“Music is the universal language of mankind”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music is the soul of language.”
– Max Heindel

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

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
– Mary Kay Ash

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

“We have to establish already in school children the belief that music belongs to everyone and is, with a little effort, available to everyone.”
– Zoltan Kodaly Lecture

“Songs are sneaky things. They can skip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells…I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.”
– Pete Seeger

“Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.”
– Napoleon Bonapart

“Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.”
– Nadia Boulanger

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the talented children of the world. Let them always have the opportunity to grow, develop, and above all, create.”
– T. Geter

“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

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa

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

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
– Arthur O’Shaughnessy

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
– Nick Hornby

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
– Nick Hornby

“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.”
– Taylor Swift

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
– Aaron Copland

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
– John Green

“The only truth is music.”
– Jack Kerouac

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

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