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More Music Quotes to Inspire Your Practice


Here is another collection of music quotes that get to the heart of why we make music ~ to express who we are. Enjoy them!

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! ~Artur Schnabel

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler

Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar

Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin

I hope you've enjoyed my favorite music quotes. Have some of your own? Share your favorite music quotes here

Read my collection of harp quotes from literature here


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