In this blog series, we share meaningful epitaphs you can use on your loved one’s headstone. Other articles in this series include memorial quotes for:
- Animal lovers
- Artists
- Athletes, coaches and sports lovers
- Book lovers
- Fathers and grandfathers
- Husband and wife
- Mothers and grandmothers
- Nature lovers
- Parents
- Teachers
- Travelers
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Memorialization is an important step in the grieving process that family members and friends can take before or after a memorial service ends. One of the most important ways to honor a loved one is by personalizing their headstone.
Many families do this with an engraved memorial quote or epitaph.
Memorial quotes can be simple and include a few descriptive words, or they can be a lengthier personal inscription that reflects your loved one’s values, character, personality or interests.
In this post, we offer several different memorial quotes for music lovers. If your loved one was a musician, frequent concertgoer or just loved a good car ride karaoke session, these epitaphs may be perfect for their headstone.
Continue reading for quotes about music, quotes from famous musicians and actual song lyrics that could be engraved on your loved one’s memorial.
Memorial Quotes About Music
1. "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."—Igor Stravinsky
2. "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
—Robert Schumann
3. “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
—Thomas Carlyle
4. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
—Plato
5. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
―Edward Bulwer-Lytton
6. “I see my life in terms of music.”
―Albert Einstein
7. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
―Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
8. “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
―Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. “Music is its own reward.”
—Sting
10. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.”
―Robert Schumann
11. “Never stop singing.”
―Anonymous
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Famous Musician Memorial Quotes
12. “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”—Claude Debussy
13. “Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
—Franz Liszt
14. “There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”
—Franz Joseph Haydn
15. “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
—Ludwig van Beethoven
16. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
17. “Imagination creates reality.”
—Richard Wagner
18. “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”
—Billy Joel
19. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”
—Beyoncé
20. “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
—John Lennon
Song Lyric Memorial Quotes
21. "Living in Paradise" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions'Cause meanwhile up in heaven they are waiting at the gate
Saying 'We'd always knew you'd make it,
Didn't think you'd come this late.
Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away.
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on
Like a bird that flew.
But Tonto he was smarter
And one day said, 'kemo sabe,
Kiss my ass I bought a boat
I'm going out to sea.’
And he said someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying.
Lord, make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors.
I carry the things that remind me of you
In loving memory of the one that was so true
You were as kind as you could be
And even though you're gone
You still mean the world to me.
And in the end, the love you take,
is equal to the love you make.
29. "Nature Boy” by Nat King Cole
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn,
is just to love and be loved in return.
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