80 quotes on Music for music lovers like you

Famous quotes from great musicians, composers and artists who reflected on this art.

Music is one of the most important factors in the life of human beings.It is not in vain that it appeared thousands of years ago, in the beginnings of our species, and has been occupying all the spaces of our day to day.

Are you a music lover? These famous quotes will make you fall in love.

Music is present in festivals, ceremonies, works of art and even in TV commercials, and it is even used in small doses of music to liven up certain moments: train rides, study days, etc.

With so much potential, it is entirely reasonable that throughout history, many prominent personalities have many outstanding personalities have left for posterity interesting phrases about music..

 

80 phrases about music (short)

Below you can see a compilation of short phrases about music that give food for thought. These are famous quotes by famous musicians and artists, as well as by other thinkers. Which one is your favorite?

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1. Music is the soundtrack of life

If we broaden the panoramic with which we see our lives, we will realize that this reflection makes a lot of sense. The phrase is from Dick Clark.

2. There are two ways to take refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

A quote by Albert SchweitzerA phrase from Albert Schweitzer, not without a touch of humor, about the power of music.

3. Without music, life would be a mistake.

One of Nietzsche's Nietzsche is also one of the phrases about music in which this art form is given a higher value.

4. All good music must be an innovation

Les Baxterabout the nature of good music.

5. Music is love looking for words

A phrase by Lawrence Durrell in which music is related to one of the great human passions.

6. I see music as fluid architecture

Joni Mitchell sees a link between the meticulousness and strategic nature of architecture and the mathematics of music.

7. Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bonothe legendary leader of the band U2, offers this reflection on music, with a rather social approach.

 

8. Music expresses that which cannot be said and that about which it is impossible to remain silent.

The French writer Victor Hugo left this reflection, one of the most remembered phrases about music.

9. Music is a greater revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Great composers also reflect on the nature of their work. On this occasion, it is Ludwig van Beethoven the one in charge of making us think.

10. Where words fail, music speaks

The expressive power of music is emphasized by Hans Christian Andersen.

11. Music is the mediator between the spiritual world and the world of the senses.

Ludwig van BeethovenThe expressive power of music is emphasized by Hans Christian Andersen.

12. The most famous and popular language in the world is music.

The South Korean rapper Psyabout the unifying potential of music.

13. To some extent, the music is no longer mine, it's yours.

Phil Collinsthe celebrated British drummer and singer, offers a short phrase about music reminiscent of a compressed version of the author's death theories.

14. Every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Kurt Cobainthe leader of Nirvana, gives reason to admire the work of musicians, even if he doesn't think much of writing.

15. Music is the shorthand of emotion

Leo TolstoyThe music is the shorthand of emotion, about the way in which music instantly expresses emotional states.

16. Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness

A positive yet martial view of music, by Jason Mraz. Jason Mraz.

17. The music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The Eastern philosopher Lao Tzuabout the transcendent aspect of music.

18. Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The composer Igor Stravinsky rejects the idea that music should be an effort to differentiate itself.

 

19. Rhythm and harmony find their way into the soul's interior

Plato, in one of his phrases about music, relates it to his concept of the spiritual, very present in his philosophy.

20. Live music is healthy

The health impact of music, according to John Lydon.

21. The only truth is music

The writer of the beat generation, Jack Kerouacin one of his most outstanding frses on music.

22. Where words are left out, music begins

Heinrich Heine also compares music with verbal expression, emphasizing the potential of the former.

23. Music is the kind of art that is closest to tears and memory

Oscar Wilde believed that music is closely connected with the emotional side of the human being.

24. Music swells the temperament

The late leader of the band The Doors, Jim Morrisonoffers a vision of music related to the irrational.

25. Music is the poetry of the air

One of the most lyrical phrases about music, whose author was Jean Paul Richter.

26. The musician is probably the most modest of animals, but also the proudest of animals

The minimalist composer Erik Satie exposes an apparent paradox.

27. When music reaches you, you feel no pain

One of the great legends of music, Bob MarleyThe music of this art form's healing power.

28. The patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

One of Plato's Plato about the process of learning.

29. Music is the universal language of mankind

Henry Hadsworth Longfellow also emphasizes the universal character of music.

30. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa about the need to break the rules and to be faithful, in any case, to creativity.

 

31. All art constantly aspires to reach the condition of music.

Walter Pater on the most outstanding art form.

32. Everything in the universe has rhythm, everything dances.

The American artist Maya Angelou finds some properties of music in everything around us.

33. I accept chaos, although I am not sure it accepts me.

Bob Dylanabout his relationship with chaos both in music and in his life.

34. I like beautiful melodies to tell me terrible things.

Tom Waits talks here about the joyful tension that musical pieces can carry.

35. Music produces a kind of pleasure without which human nature cannot live.

One of the oldest sayings about music, in this case from the philosopher Confucius.

36. Music is to the soul what gymnastics is to the body

Plato leaves us another famous quote about music and its benefits.

37. Music composes the discomposed spirits and relieves the labors that are born of the spirit.

The author of Don Quixote of La Mancha, Miguel de CervantesThe author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes, on the benefits of listening to good melodies.

38. Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknown.

Leonard Bernstein captures in this inspiring phrase the magic of this art.

39. In music all feelings return to their pure state and the world is nothing but music made real.

Arthur Schopenhauerthe German philosopher, reflects on music.

40. Music constitutes a higher revelation than any philosophy.

BeethovenBeethoven , on the mystical aspect of this art.

 

41. Composing is not difficult, what is complicated is to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.

The classical musician Johannes Brahms reflects on musical composition.

42. Rock is a swimming pool, jazz is a whole ocean

Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana Carlos Santanaon the differences between these two musical genres.

43. Musicians are terribly unreasonable. They always want you to be completely mute at the very moment when you want to be completely deaf.

A famous quote from Oscar Wilde.

44. Music is the voluptuousness of the imagination.

Eugène Delacroixproposes a connection between musical creation and unrestrained imagination.

45. Music is the arithmetic of sounds, as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy speaks about his particular perception of musical art.

46. In truth, if it were not for music, there would be more reason to go mad.

The musician and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky left us this interesting phrase about music for inveterate music lovers.

47. He who listens to music feels that his loneliness is suddenly populated.

Robert BrowningRobert Browning, on the healing effect of melodies.

48. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Grouxo Marx leaves us an interesting reflection.

49. Music is an echo of the invisible world

Giuseppe Mazzini is the author of this intriguing phrase about musical art.

50. Music is the Heart of life. Through her love speaks; without her no good is possible, and with her everything is beautiful.

The Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Liszt attaches central importance to music.

51. The critics see the music and hear the painting

Valeriu Butulescua music lover who understood the complexity of art.

52. Some people have life, others have music.

A quote by John Green about the intensity with which music can be experienced.

53. We should consider a day wasted when we have not danced.

Another one of Nietzsche's phrases about music in which his vitalism is expressed.

54. My ambition was to live like music

A statement by the essayist and writer Mary Gaitskill.

55. Much of music consists of mathematics; it consists of balance.

A reflection of screenwriter and film director Mel Brooks.

56. If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

One of the most remembered phrases of Emma Goldman, a reference of anarchism and feminism.

57. Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

Frank Zappa offers this humorous note about the most chaotic musical genre.

58. Musicians don't retire; they stop playing when there's no more music in them.

An inspiring quote from Louis Armstrong

59. Love is friendship played as a piece of music

This reflection about love is by Joseph Campbell.

60. Mathematics is the music of reason

Comparisons between mathematics and music have been constant throughout history. This phrase by James Joseph Sylvester is an example of this.

61. Richard Wagner, a musician who composed music that was better than it sounded

This is how this composer saw his own work; as something that goes beyond the musical.

63. Music has charms to soothe the wild breast, soften the rocks, and bend an oak tree

William Congreve emphasizes the gentle character of music.

63. I do not make music for the eyes but for the ears.

A phrase of the singer Adele in which she vindicates the raison d'être of music.

64. Music is like a strong discharge of tension

James Taylor defines music in terms of its psychological effects.

65. Music is like an oasis in my head

River Phoenix talks about the calmness that the process of creating musical pieces transmits.

66. As long as my music is real, there is no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Kendrik Lamar talks about the power of authentic music to reach people.

67. Music is powerful; as people listen to it, they are affected by it.

Another of the phrases about music that highlight the way in which it influences us. In this case, the author is Ray Charles.

68. Everyone should pursue what is authentic in oneself; that is the way to have a long life in music.

A recommendation from Bjorn Ulvaenus for people who want to pursue a career in this field.

69. Music is the power of the prophets and a gift from God

A curious phrase of Martin Luther.

70. Music is a way to dream together and to go to another dimension.

A reflection by Cecilia Bartoli on how we experience music.

71. The best music is made of love, not money.

Greg Lake talks about what motivates the creation of good music.

72. I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Annie Lennox establishes a link between the musical and the cognitive.

73. I just want to feel as much as I can, that's all the soul is about.

A quote from the great singer Janis Joplin.

74. All the things we throw into the sea are always returned to us by the tide. The harder you try to forget it, the more you remember it.

Phrase of Fito y Fitipaldis.

75. Music is the true universal language

A reflection of Carl von Weber, the German composer.

76. Music is a wide thing, without limits, without frontiers, without flags.

León Gieco, the Argentine musician and composer, spoke this way about music.

77. Music begins where language ends

ETA Hoffmann, in a thought that went around the world.

78. It is extraordinary how powerful bad music is

When something sounds bad, our ears complain. Noel Coward's reflection.

79. Hell is full of amateur musicians

Along the lines of the previous one.

80. It is perhaps in music that the soul comes closest to the great end for which it strives when it is inspired by poetic feeling: the creation of supernatural beauty.

A quote by the writer Edgar Allan Poe.