World Music Day 2023: History, theme, quotes and all you need to know

World Music Day 2023: World Music Day is observed every year on June 21. This is celebrated in 120 countries worldwide, World Music Day is celebrated through concerts and musical performances. World Music Day aims to make music as an art form more consumable for the young generation. On this day music lovers usually perform for their audience in public spaces to express their respect towards the art form.    

World Music Day: History

Fete de la Musique, a music festival that started in France in 1982, is believed to be how World Music Day began. Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture in 1981, conceived the idea of celebrating a day of music. As per another theory, in 1976, Joel Cohen proposed the idea of an all-night music celebration to mark the beginning of summer solstice, and since then, World Music Day has been celebrated on June 21.

World Music Day: Theme

The theme of World Music Day 2022 was "Music on the intersections." This theme was about finding and appreciating music at the intersectional level.

The theme for World Music Day 2023 is “Music on the Intersections”

World Music Day 2023: Quotes

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen

"Music is the universal language of mankind." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." - Jules Combarieu

"Music is the shorthand of emotion." - Leo Tolstoy

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo

"Music is the strongest form of magic." - Marilyn Manson

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp

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

"Music is the soul of language." - Max Heindel

"Music is the soundtrack of your life." - Dick Clark

 "Music can change the world because it can change people." - Bono

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

"Music is the companion of solitude, the balm of loneliness, and the inspiration of love." - Lawrence Sterne

"Music is the poetry of the air." - Jean Paul Richter