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“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven ·

“I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey ·

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” ― Plato ·

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
― Victor Hugo

“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
― Confucius

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius

“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

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“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, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
― George Eliot

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955

“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”
― William Faulkner

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
― George Bernard Shaw