Perfect Quotes for Your Music Bulletin Board: Part 1

How to Use Music Quotes in Your Classroom

Inspiring quotes can do more than decorate your classroom – they can motivate your students, spark creativity, and celebrate the power of music.

Displaying thoughtful quotes on your bulletin board or classroom wall reminds students that music is meaningful, personal, and transformative.

Here are a few creative ways to use music quotes with your students:

• Spark Reflection: Ask students to pick a quote and write a short reflection on how it connects to their own musical journey.
• Inspire Creativity: Challenge students to compose a short piece inspired by a favourite quote.
• Class Discussion: Use a quote as a weekly conversation starter about music, performance, or expression.
• Bulletin Board Ideas: Rotate quotes weekly, or pair them with student artwork or recordings to create an interactive “music wall.”

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Music quotes for your classroom wall: general

1. We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. We are the movers and shakers of the world, forever, it seems. ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy
2. Music is Life. That’s why our hearts have beats. ~ Cecily Morgan
3. Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. ~ E.Y. Harburg
4. If music be the food of love, play on! ~ Shakespeare
5. The expert at anything was once a beginner. ~ Helen Hayes
6. No music no life, know music know life. ~ Thomas Carlyle
7. To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
8. M-usic, U-nlocks, S-elf-expression, I-ntelligence, C-reativity ~ Unknown/Anonymous
9. Never B flat, sometimes B sharp, always B natural. ~ Unknown/Anonymous
10. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~ Victor Hugo
11. Use what talent you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke
12. Let music belong to everyone. ~ Zoltan Kodaly
13. Music alone shall live, never to die. ~ Traditional round
14. Life is a song and love is the background music. ~ Unknown/Anonymous
15. Kind words are the music of the world. ~ Frederick William Faber
16. Music can change the world. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
17. Music alone shall live, never to die. ~ Traditional
18. The only thing better than singing is more singing. ~ Ella Fitzgerald
19. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ~ Maya Angelou
20. Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music quotes for your classroom wall: about singing

1. A happy child is a child who sings. ~ Unknown/Anonymous
2. Life is a song – sing it. ~ Sai Baba
3. If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing. ~ Zimbabwean proverb
4. Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~ Swedish proverb
5. We do not sing because we are happy. We are happy because we sing. ~ Williams James
6. Birds of a feather sing together. ~ Noah Mark
7. Music is the space between the notes. ~ Claude Debussy
8. The universe without music would be madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Let music surround you. Let it warm your heart. Those who sing in harmony never grow apart. ~ Unknown
10. Everything in the world has a spirit that can be released through its sound. ~ Oskar Fischinger

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Like some more quotes?

We had so many we decided to split our collection into two parts.  Head over here to see Part 2.