Are you passionate about music? If yes, International Music Day is a special day for you. The day is set aside every year on 21st June to support music lovers in their careers. You can make this day more special by performing in the streets, parks, and so on.
The day is always observed all over the country. In addition to attending free concerts and performances, you can share quotes on your social media to mark the day. Read on for more inspiration and motivation from the selections of quotes below.
Origins and Significance of International Music Day
You can start as early as possible by defining the origin of International Music Day using these quotes.
1. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, and abolishing strife.
2. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
3. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
4. Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without.
5. Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
6. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
7. Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
8. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Timeless Words from Legendary Musicians
Also, you can use sayings from Legends in the industry of music.
1. Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in the. Jeff Beck
2. I don’t care about the rules. If I don’t break the rules at least 10 times every song, then I’m not doing my job. John Cage
3. Listening is the key to everything great in music. Pat Metheny
4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t trying. Coleman Hawkings
5. You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. Miles Davis
6. If I don’t practice for a day, I know it… for two days, the critics know it… three days, the public knows it. Louis Armstrong
7. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! Bob Marley
8. One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel alright. Bob Marley
Quotes from Renowned Composers
Have you ever realized that the roots of music are from composers? Here are some of their quotes.
1. Puccini: “Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man’s faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”
2. Wagner: “Don’t look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” “I write music with an exclamation point!” “Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being
3. Claude Debussy: “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
4. Georg Frideric Handel: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.”
5. Leonard Bernstein: “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
6. Giuseppe Verdi: “To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.”
7. Bela Bartok: “Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
8. Aaron Copland: “So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.”
Inspirational Sayings from Modern-Day Artists
Modern-day artists find a unique connection with music as time goes by. Here are some of their sayings.
1. “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” Vincent van Gogh
2. “Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse 3. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
3. “They always say time changes things, but you have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
4. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso 6. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” Marc Chagall
5. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” Piet Mondrian
6. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” Salvador Dali
7. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” Francis Bacon
8. “To create one’s world takes courage.” Georgia O’Keeffe
9. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti
10. “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” John Lennon
Literary and Poetic Odes to Music
Music is full of poetry, and here is how;
1. We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
2. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
3. Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.
4. Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
5. To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights “the servile house,” and who would rather make odes than beds.
6. And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
7. Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
8. Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness, and the black ones show sadness, but as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also make music.
9. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting, and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
10. Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation, and specificity.
Philosophical Musings on the Power of Music
As powerful as music is, it can literary do many things to one’s spirit.
1. Where words leave off, music begins.
2. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
3. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.
4. Where words fail, music speaks.
5. Music is the universal language of mankind.
6. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
7. Who hears music, feels his solitude people at once.
8. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
9. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
10. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Celebrity Reflections on Music’s Universal Language
Music being everywhere, becomes a universal language.
1. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
2. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley
4. Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without.
5. Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Anderson
6. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? Jane Swan
7. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it is below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert G. Ingersoll
8. Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. Josh Homme
9. A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Guy de Maupassant
10. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. Oscar Wilde
Cultural Proverbs and Sayings About Music
Culture does not leave music behind. Every culture in the world has something to say about it.
1. When the music changes, so dances.
2. To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation.
3. Silence is music to a wise man.
4. The mouth is not sweetened by saying “Honey, honey.” So the music, so the people.
5. Music helps not the toothache.
6. A silent mouth is musical.
7. Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone.
8. Without music life would be a mistake.
9. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
10. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Conclusion: The Eternal Resonance of Music in Words
In conclusion, music is a multipurpose tool. Mythical repetition of words produces a sense of engagement to anyone. Folks, this already is a call for everyone to enhance International Music Day and fall in love with music.
A dose to turn your mourning to enthusiasm. From the mentioned above intelligent and inspirational quotes, you can inspire anyone. Just thinking of music is the state of being resonant. Do not forget to dance, sing, or even attend an event on such a day to support music. You might make someone smile.
