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World Music Day 2025: Date, history, quotes, significance — all you need to know

World Music Day 2025 Date, History, Significance: World Music Day is celebrated annually on June 21, and this year, it is falling on Saturday, June 21, 2025.

World Music Day 2025World Music Day 2025: As we mark the day today on June 21, here's all you need to know.

World Music Day 2025 Theme and History: Music plays a significant role in our lives, possessing the remarkable ability to transcend cultural and linguistic barriers, thereby uniting individuals from various corners of the globe.

Known as Fête de la Musique, World Music Day is celebrated annually on June 21, celebrating music and musicians worldwide with daylong performances and concerts, among other activities.

It can be traced back to France in 1982, when the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, dedicated a day to the celebration of music. Composer Maurice Fleuret was roped in to organise a festival in Paris, thus laying the foundation for the celebration of World Music Day.

A different theory for its origins believes that the American writer Joel Cohen came up with the concept of holding an all-night music festival to commemorate the Summer Solstice.


Every year, people gather to commemorate World Music Day, which now has grown into a global event that symbolises music as a universal language to symbolise inclusivity and unity.

The day is commemorated with slogans like “Faites de la musique” or “Make music,” which reflects its main objective of inspiring everyone to enjoy music, regardless of background or ability level.

A few quotes to share on World Music Day 2025

Music reveals truths beyond what wisdom and philosophy can ever express. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should move you, whether it stirs your soul or gets you on your feet. ~ Elvis Presley

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Music belongs to everyone; it’s only publishers who think otherwise. ~ John Lennon

The beauty of music is that when it hits you, it brings no pain. ~ Bob Marley

Music speaks truth. If anything in this world can bring change, it’s through music. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Music has always been my constant, even when people weren’t. ~ Taylor Swift

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