Famous Music Quotes That Celebrate the Inspirational and Magical Power of Music
“Music is the purest form of art… therefore true musicians are closer to God than other people.”
Pandit Ravi Shankar
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“It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.”
Lata Mangeshkar
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“Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship.”
Swami Vivekanand
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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
Plato
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“Music is not entertainment. It is the highest form of prayer.”
Ustad Bismillah Khan
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“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
Martin Luther
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“Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.”
Michael Jackson
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“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Charles Darwin
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“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
George Eliot
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“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
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“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 colour we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”
John Denver
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“Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.”
Robert Browning
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“Music comes from a place we don’t know.”
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
Kahlil Gibran
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“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Rachmaninov
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“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
William James
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“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
Modest Mouse
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“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”
Johnny Depp
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“The only truth is music.”
Jack Kerouac
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“Music is my higher power.”
Oliver James
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“Music is my religion.”
Jimi Hendrix
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“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
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
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“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
Taylor Swift
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo
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“ “Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”. ”
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu
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“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
Maria von Trapp
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“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.”
Lauren Myracle
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“Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.”
T.S. Eliot
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“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley
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“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”
Stevie Wonder
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“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
Jimi Hendrix
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“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
Edgar Winter
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“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
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“I see my life in terms of music.”
Albert Einstein
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“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
Jane Austen
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
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“If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
Vera Nazarian
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“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Thomas Carlyle
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“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
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“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”
Lou Rawls
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“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.”
Bono
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“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
Confucius
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“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
Sarah Dessen
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“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
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“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
Bryce W. Anderson
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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”
Elton John
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“Music is the medicine of the mind.”
John Logan
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“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
Stephen Sondheim
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“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Berthold Auerbach
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“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
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“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
Dayananda Saraswati
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“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
Bono
(Lead singer of U2)
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“Music is a mantra that soothes the soul. It’s therapeutic. It’s something our body has to have. It’s very important to understand the power of music.”
Michael Jackson
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“What I have in my heart and soul – must find a way out. That’s the reason for music.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
Pablo Casals
(Cellist and conductor)
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland
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“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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“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
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“There is no other stimulus on Earth that engages the brain as globally as music does.”
Brian Harris
(Music Therapist)
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.”
Plato
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Music happens to be art form
that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
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Music isn’t just sound — it’s the language of the soul.
It’s the rhythm in your heartbeat, the melody in your dreams, and the song that’s been waiting to be sung… by you.
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🎶🧘♂️ June 21 – A Day of Harmony and Healing
World Music Day × International Yoga Day
A perfect union of rhythm and inner peace
Today we celebrate: 🎵 Music — that moves the soul 🧘 Yoga — that centers the mind. Together, they bring us balance, joy, and a deeper connection to ourselves.
💫 From Sur Dhyan Music Studio, we wish you a day (and life) filled with sound, silence, and soulful balance. Tune in. Breathe deep. Align within🔖