Every Life Has a Soundtrack | 85 Music Quotes for Kids

As a universal language, music is beneficial for children, whether they learn how to play a musical instrument or just listen to recorded music. This is probably why so many famous people and important personalities around the world praised music’s importance for the upbringing of kids.

This collection of famous quotes about music will help children – and perhaps their parents too!- get to know the world around them and express their love for music through these memorable words of others.

Best Music Quotes for Kids

Quotes for Kids Learning Music
Inspirational Music Quotes for Kids
Famous Composers’ Music Quotes for Kids

Best Music Quotes for Kids

All the important phrases uttered about the gravity of the art of music.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. Victor Hugo
He who sings frightens away his ills. Miguel de Cervantes

Music is Life. That’s why our hearts have beats. Cecily Morgan
Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen
The only truth is music. Jack Kerouac

If I cannot fly, let me sing. Stephen Sondheim
We’ve already invented a time machine. It’s called music. Brian Norgard
Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without music, life would be a blank to me. Jane Austen

Famous music quote for kids. — Melody is the essence of music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Colbie Caillat
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle

The more you love music, the more music you love. Tom Moon
Music is the best. Frank Zappa
Every life has a soundtrack. Jodi Picoult

A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance. Mel Brooks
Music can change the world because it can change people. Bono
When you play, never mind who listens to you. Robert Schumann

Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! Maria Augusta von Trapp
Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. Maya Angelou

As long as we live, there is never enough singing. Martin Luther
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. William James
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. J. McLean

Those who wish to sing always find a song. Unknown
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley
Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are. Tiffanie DeBartolo

Music is my higher power. Oliver James
I think that music has an endless life. Anne Dudley
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. Sun Tzu

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. Criss Jami
For me, everything definitely comes from music. Mike Myers

I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think. Kenny Rogers
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 seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. George Eliot

Chamber music – a conversation between friends. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. Cecilia Bartoli
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. Jason Mraz

If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Vera Nazarian
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. Dimebag Darrell

Quotes for Kids Learning Music

These are quotes that stress the importance of kids learning music and how that can help them in life.

The fact that children can make beautiful music is less significant than the fact that music can make beautiful children. Cheryl Lavender
There is music in every child. The teacher’s job is to find it and nurture it. Frances Clark
Music education can help spark a child’s imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. Hillary Clinton

I cannot imagine my life if I didn’t have a music program in my school. Beyonce
One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education. Gloria Estefan
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. Luciano Pavarotti

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. Shinichi Suzuki
Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world. Paul Carvel
I don’t think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program. Bill Clinton

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
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today. Jef Raskin
Education isn’t just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. Julie Garwood

Early Music training seems to shape the young brain, strengthening the neural connections and perhaps establishing new ones. Frances Rauscher
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. Aristotle
Education is not entertainment, and music for partying is not music for studying: the two are mutually exclusive. Beethoven is for studying: Britney Spears is for partying. Robert Walker

Inspirational Music Quotes for Kids

Sometimes children seek inspiration in music itself – and these quotes can express a lot that can stir their imagination.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. Maria Augusta von Trapp

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
Melody is, and ever will be, the very flower of music. August W. Ambros
Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese proverb

A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Guy de Maupassan
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Joshua Logan

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. Y. Harburg
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. Marcel Marceau

Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato

Famous Quotes for Kids

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Famous Composers’ Music Quotes for Kids

Children would be really curious to learn what famous music composers had to say about their own art.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. Ludwig van Beethoven

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. Sergei Rachmaninoff
Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius

Melody is the essence of music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Igor Stravinsky
Music can change the world. Ludwig van Beethoven

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. Ludwig van Beethoven
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. Frédéric Chopin
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