The Best Quotes About Music & Music Practice
If you’re looking for inspiring (and relevant!) quotes about music and practice, then this collection includes the very best! Use these music quotes to motivate your students via classroom bulletin boards, music studio posters, student folders, or social media posts.
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Short Quotes About Music
“Music can change the world.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!” – Joss Stirling
“No music no life, know music know life.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Music is life itself.” – Louis Armstrong
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson


“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark
“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” – Karl Lagerfeld
“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” – Jason Mraz
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
More Quotes About Music
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” – Goldie Hawn
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” – Modest Mouse
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” – Maria von Trapp
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninov


“Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
“The more you love music, the more music you love.” – Tom Moon
Quotes About Practice
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Unknown
“Practice makes progress, not perfect.” – Unknown
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection.”- Toba Beta
“The only way to achieve mastery is through practice.” – James Clear


“The musician is always practicing, even when they’re playing.” – Wynton Marsalis
“Practice is the best of all instructors.” – Publilius Syrus
“The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.” – Jocko Willink
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is practice.” – Vladimir Horowitz
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