Music can be a powerful source of inspiration and motivation, especially when the journey gets tough. Music has been one of the leading things that have helped me throughout life and that’s why I love it. Inspiring music quotes can provide a much-needed boost, reminding us of the perseverance, creativity, and passion that drive success. In this post, we have compiled 50 inspiring music quotes from renowned musicians and artists to help uplift and inspire you on your entrepreneurial journey.
50 Inspiring Music Quotes
- “Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.” Prince
- “Increase your confidence in your self-worth and in your ability to contribute good things to the world.” Lindsey Stirling
- “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” Kurt Cobain
- “Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” Janelle Monae
- “You don’t have to believe everything you think.” Erykah Badu
- “Where’s your will to be weird?” Jim Morrison
- “There’s always that argument to make – that you’re in better company historically if people don’t understand what you’re doing.” Elliott Smith
- “Trying to please everybody is impossible—if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.” John Lennon
- “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.” Cher
- “The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley
- “Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.” – Mick Jagger
- “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley:
- “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals
- “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” – Billy Joel:
- “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “It’s a great thing about being a musician; you don’t stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it’s a wonderful thing to do.” – Marcus Miller
- “If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.”- Sting
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music can change the world because it can change people.” -Bono (U2)
- “Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music.” -Carlos Santana
- “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 is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” -Plato
- “Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.” -Karlheinz Stockhausen
- “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” -Billy Joel
- “Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” -Igor Stravinsky
- “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato
- “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” -J.S. Bach
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” -BB King
- “The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” -Elvis Presley
- “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” – Jane Swan
- “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” – Beethoven
- “The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac
- “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.” – John Mayer
- “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” – Keith Richards
- “Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen
- “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski
- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that . . . I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
- “You have to take a deep breath, and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” – Kelly White
- “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
- “The cool thing about music is that no one can take music away from you, writing-wise.” – Darren Criss
- “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” – Confucius
- “My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.” – Bob Marley
- “Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson
- “The purpose of art is the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” – Glenn Gould
- “Keep searching for that sound in your head until it becomes a reality” – Bill Evans
- “If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds, and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.” – Sting
- “Be open to the possibility of your ears and soul being challenged, be curious about how that may be done, be hungry for new sounds, be thirsty for what you don’t know yet”– James MacMillan