Music Quotations
1. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
2. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
- Victor Hugo
3. “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
4. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the
music.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
5. “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC”
- Kurt Vonnegut
6. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to
everything.”
- Plato
7. “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
8. “The only truth is music.”
- Jack Kerouac
9. “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
- Maya Angelou
10. “Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”
- Leonard Bernstein
11. “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
12. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
- Johnny Depp
13. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14. “Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing
nowadays.”
- Oscar Wilde
15. “Where words fail, music speaks.”
- Hans Christian Andersen
16. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
17. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
- Maria von Trapp
18. “Where words leave off, music begins.”
- Heinrich Heine
19. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
- Khalil Gibran
20. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
- Johann Sebastian Bach
21. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick
and weary.”
- Martin Luther
22. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
- Lao Tzu
23. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”
- Bono
24. “Love is friendship set to music.”
- Jackson Pollock
25. "Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
- Haruki Murakami
26. “For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous
system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
- Eric Clapton
27. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
28. “Let me handle the music for one generation and I will control Rome.”
- Plato
29. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
- Bob Marley
30. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
- Aldous Huxley