25+ Memorial Quotes for Music Lovers

Written by Alecia Milano | June 25, 2024

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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

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.

22. "I'll Fly Away" by Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch

Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away.

23. "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan

The only thing I knew how to do

Was to keep on keepin' on

Like a bird that flew.

24. "If I Had a Boat" by Lyle Lovett

But Tonto he was smarter

And one day said, 'kemo sabe,

Kiss my ass I bought a boat

I'm going out to sea.’

25. “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw

And he said someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were dying.

26. “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry

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.

27. “In Loving Memory” by Alter Bridge

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.

28. "The End” by the Beatles

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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