From Vibrations to Healing: 55 Quotes on the Power of Sound

quotes on power of sound

Sound quotes to inspire you

Here at HUSO, we understand the power of sound and how it can have far-reaching benefits for the body. From sound of water to human sound, good sounds have a healing effect on the body.

We’ve compiled some of our favorite quotes on the power of sound to heal and revitalize. We hope they’ll inspire you!

1. Music is a great healer. Begin and end your day with music. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Akita quote

2. Every illness is a musical problem – the healing, a musical solution. – Novalis

Novalis quote

3. Healing is communication; and music, in its universal nature, is total communication. In the deepest mysteries of music are the inspirations, the pathways, and the healing which lead to one-ness and unity. – Olivia Dewhurst-Maddock

Dewhurst-Maddock quote

4. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius

Confucius quote

5. Sound works enormously, deeply, and it doesn’t always travel through the intellect. It’s a poetic way to speak to someone. – Yves Yersin

Yersin quote

6. The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing. – Antonio Machado y Ruiz

Antonio Machado quote

7. Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. – Hazrat Inayat Khan

Khan quote

8. Just as certain selections of music will nourish the physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. – Hal Lindeman

Lindeman quote

9. Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. – Nina Simone

Nina Simone quote

10. Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. – Langston Hughes

Hughes quote

Quotes on rhythm and harmony

11. When we sing together in harmony, our hearts start beating together. – Tania De Jong

de Jong quote

12. Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. – Plato

Plato quote

13. The human voice has the key to open many doors of wonder. – Unknown

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14. Life as manifested is vibration. Vibration is motion; therefore, all life is in motion. Harmony of vibration unites life forms. – Dorinne Davis

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15. Music has touched the human soul across all boundaries of time, space, and genre....Perhaps, in its vibratory nature, music opens us to a greater appreciation of our essential connectedness to the cosmos, our oneness with all that is. – Balfour M. Mount

Mount quote

16. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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17. Music can heal the wounds that medicine cannot touch. – Debasish Mridha

Mridha quote

18. Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. – Hazrat Inaya Khan

Hazrat Inaya Khan quote

19. Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing. – Layne Redmond

Layne Redmond quote

20. Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote

Inspirational Quotes on music

21. If you learn music, you’ll learn history. If you learn music, you’ll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you’ll learn most all there is to learn. – Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce

22. The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. – St. Ambrose

St. Ambrose quote

23. See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music. – Thomas Carlyle

Carlyle quote

24. The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment. – Pythagoras

Pythagoras

25. There is no agent so powerful in giving us real rest as true music… It does for heart and mind, and also for the body, what sleep does for the body alone. – Auguste Gratry

August Gratry quote

26. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley

Bob Marley quote

27. Music brings us pleasure and releases our suffering. It can calm us down and pump us up. It helps us manage pain, run faster, sleep better and be more productive. – Alex Doman

Alex Doman quote

28. Music is one of the longest standing self prescribed therapy in history. – Erin Seibert

Erin Seibert Quote

29. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Red Auerbach

Auerbach quote

30. Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form. – MC Yogi

MC Yogi

Sound quotes that inspire creativity

31. If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth: Listen to the secret sound; the real sound, which is inside you. – Kabir

Kabir quote

32. Music is feeling, then, not sound. – Wallace Stevenson

Wallace Stevenson quote

33.A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski

34. Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. – Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix quote

35. Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote

36. Sound has a geometry of its own. If you utter the right kinds of sounds, it will touch and embrace the forms. There is tremendous power in this. – Sadhguru

Sadhguru

37. The earth has music for those who listen. – William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare quote

38. I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can. – Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly quote

39. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. – Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton quote

40. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. – Plato

Plato quote

Sound quotes that inspire transformation

41. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. – Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran quote

42. Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. – Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson quote

43. The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars. – Independent Zen

Independent Zen quote

44. The power of music to integrate and cure… is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest non-chemical medication. – Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks quote

45. Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. – Kathy McClary

Kathy McClary quote

46. Music is…a higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven quote

47. In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music. – Cicero

Cicero quote

48. Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. – Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo quote

49. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living, as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

Edward Lytton quote

50. There will come a time when a diseased condition will not be described as it is today by physicians and psychologists, but it will be spoken of in musical terms, as one would speak of a piano that was out of tune. – Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner quote

Quotes on the power of music

51. Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. – Haruki Murakami

Haruki Marakami quote

52. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John

Elton John quote

53. Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. – Frédéric Chopin

Frederic Chopin quote

54. My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously respond to good music. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Akita quote

55. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. – Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen quote

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