Music And Life Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old music and life quotes, music and life sayings, and music and life proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
Music can change the world because it can change people. Bono
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. William Shakespeare
Some people have lives; some people have music. John Green
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. Domenico Cieri Estrada
Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. Carlos Santana
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. Ludwig van Beethoven
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 color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. John Denver
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? Leonardo DaVinci
One reason music is more effective than antidepressants is because if you listen close enough you might feel God telling you everything is going to be okay. Paul Cardall
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener. David Lanz
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. Virgil Thompson
Without music, life would be a blank to me. Jane Austen
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Hans Christian Andersen
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
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. William P. Merrill
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius
Music is to me like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tire of music! Ray Charles
What we play is life. Louis Armstrong
Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. Chris S. Salazar
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul Richter
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. William F. Buckley, Jr.