Top 200 Music Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it’s worked.”

— Ed Sheeran

52. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

53. “Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

— A. R. Rahman

54. “There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.”

— David Bowie

55. “Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

— A. R. Rahman

56. “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”

— Tom Petty

57. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”

— Eminem

58. “Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”

— Bob Marley

59. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

60. “Imagine all the people living life in peace...”

— John Lennon

61. “Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

62. “Where’s your will to be weird?”

— Jim Morrison

63. “I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change.”

— Michael Jackson

64. “Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”

— Eminem

65. “I want to find something I’ve wanted all along Somewhere I belong.”

— Linkin Park

66. “You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.”

— Eminem

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

— Khalil Gibran

68. “You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

— Taylor Swift

69. “It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. It’s my life.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

70. “If you think you are too old to rock ’n roll, then you are.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

71. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

72. “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

— Frank Zappa

73. “There are places I’ll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I’ve loved them all.”

— John Lennon

74. “You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.”

— Tom Petty

75. “I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.”

— Lady Gaga

76. “Every day I’m hustlin’.”

— Rick Ross

77. “Lean on me, when you’re not strong and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on.”

— Bill Withers

78. “Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

79. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

— Elton John

80. “I like big butts and I cannot lie.”

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

81. “Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.”

— Miley Cyrus

82. “Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar.”

— Katy Perry

83. “It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me And I’m feeling good.”

— Leslie Bricusse

84. “If I lay here If I just lay here would you lie with me and just forget the world?”

— Snow Patrol

85. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

86. “And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah...”

— Louis Armstrong

87. “Music is an addiction.”

— Miles Davis

88. “There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.”

— Bob Marley

89. “I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold. But I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good.”

— Kid Cudi

90. “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

— Freddie Mercury

91. “Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.”

— Linkin Park

92. “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”

— Bob Marley

93. “Take my hand and we’ll make it – I swear.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

94. “Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball.”

— Freddie Mercury

95. “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”

— Taylor Swift

96. “I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.”

— George Harrison

97. “My rights, my wrongs, I write ’til I’m right with God.”

— Kendrick Lamar

98. “One Band, One Dream, One Direction.”

— One Direction

99. “Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn’t matter much to me.”

— John Lennon

100. “We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”

— Bruce Springsteen