Best Music Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”

“As a dancer, when you're moving, you're listening to music so much because you're trying to portray it with your body. You're dissecting a song way more than anyone would actually think you are.”

“Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.”

“I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.”

“I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.”

“You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.”

“I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.”

“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”

“We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.”

“It's always about the music, never about anything else.”

“Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.”

“I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.”

“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”

“I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.”

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.”

“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.”

“We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic landscape. The environment is a major character in each show.”

“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.”

“Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.”

“I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.”

“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”

“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”

“Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'”

“Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.”

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

“Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.”

“I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.”

“I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.”

“I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on.”

“Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.”

“Music is like a medicine.”

“I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.”

“I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.”

“Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.”

“Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.”

“Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.”

“My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women - and guys - how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.”

“Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.”

“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.”

“I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.”

“So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.”

“If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.”

“I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.”

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”

“Disco is just pop music you can dance to.”

“I would like to inform the public that I have entered into a licensing agreement with Agi Music for manufacturing and distributing my songs in any format and have also granted the license to distribute my songs on digital and new media formats, including mobile ringtones, caller tunes, and online downloads.”

“I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.”

“Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.”

“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.”

“I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.”

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”

“My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.”

“As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.”

“Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”

“I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.”

“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.”

“Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.”

“Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.”

“Music is really driving my whole life.”

“Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.”

“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.”

“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.”

“Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.”

“I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.”

“Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.”

“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”

“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”

“Music is real. It affects people; it's real.”

“Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.”

“You listen to my music, I'ma tell you how I'm feeling, the pain that I go through on a daily basis, my real life, you know what I'm saying? Reality - I feel like a lot of people living in fairytale land, wonderland.”

“I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.”

“Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.”

“One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.”

“I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.”

“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.”

“I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.”

“That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.”

“Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.”

“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”

“Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have.”

“Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.”

“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”

“Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.”

“I've always loved space in music, when songs are allowed to breathe and aren't muddied or weighed down by unnecessary production elements.”

“YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.”

“My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.”

“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.”

“Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.”

“I want to put a face to my music, I don't want to be a faceless producer or faceless artist.”

“Music is always a commentary on society.”

“There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.”

“That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.”

“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.”

“I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.”

“Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).”

“A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.”

“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”

“'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.”

“There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.”