Quotations about music (nonfiction)

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.”
— Aretha Franklin

"Music is the soundtrack of your life"
—Dick Clark

132. “Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” — T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” — Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” — Roy Ayers

“The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow