Everyone has heard at least one song in their lifetime. It could be a catchy pop tune on the radio, or a classic rock ballad from your parents’ generation. Songs speak to us in ways that no other form of communication can. They can make us happy, sad, nostalgic, and inspired. In this blog post, we’ll share some of our favorite music quotes with you.
The best music quotes
1. Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented. — Miranda Lambert
2. Music is more difficult–try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. — Thom Yorke
3. I don’t listen to music before a race–my coach doesn’t like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration. — Usain Bolt
4. Metal is still the biggest music now in America. — Sebastian Bach
5. The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. — Steve Jobs
6. Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. — Martin Luther King
7. The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde
8. I’ve never intended to be controversial, but it’s very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
9. Music is the center of my life. — Nina Simone
10. Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream–they go together. — Nikki Giovanni
11. Music is how you feel. — Young Jeezy
12. Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. — Michael Jackson
13. I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make–believe. — Vince Vaughn
14. I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier. — Pink
15. Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain? — Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
16. Great classic music that I’ve been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. — Scott Weiland
17. Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin
18. Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears–it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks
19. Television made a lot of difference in country music. It’s progress. I believe in progress. — Roy Acuff
20. For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder! — Summer Sanders
21. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration. — Norah Jones
22. Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. — Ursula K. Le Guin
23. For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that’s my basic makeup. — Steve Miller
24. Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. — Ray Charles
25. As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. — Van Morrison
26. Music makes one feel so romantic–at least it always gets on one’s nerves–which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde
27. Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences. — Quentin Tarantino
28. Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling. — Waylon Jennings
29. As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving. — Tom Jones
30. So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. — William Shakespeare
31. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. — Thomas Merton
32. It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver–sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears!–Romeo — William Shakespeare
33. Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. — Paul Simon
34. I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America. — Page Hamilton
35. After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. — Maynard James Keenan
36. Those people out there like good music. They don’t stop and ask themselves, ‘Is it country or rock and roll?’ If they like it, they will tell you. — Willie Nelson
37. The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self–motivation . — Napoleon Hill
38. Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it. — Suzette Vearnon
39. Music is like my security blanket. — Yoko Ono
40. If you took music out of my life, I don’t know what I’d do. It’s the one thing that I have a real passion for. — Martin Gore
41. Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho
42. In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness… I see what people call God in all these things. — Pablo Casals
43. I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze. — Scott Hastie
44. Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. — Max Roach
45. Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. — Thomas Carlyle
46. Cudi should be a top tier artist… I think he fathered a lot of the style of music. He’s a good influence and a good help. — Travis Scott
47. When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. — Richard Morris
48. Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play. — Van Morrison
49. Time to the face the music, — J.R. Ward, Crave
50. Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman
Conclusion
We hope these quotes about music have inspired you to appreciate its beauty and power. Music is an amazing form of art and expression that has the power to lift our spirits, inspire us, and bring us together. The next time you hear a song that resonates with you, take a moment to appreciate its power and beauty. Thanks for reading!
