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71 Top Festival Quotes + Captions to Match Your Festival Vibe

Posted on Last updated: May 30, 2023

If you just had the time of your life at a festival and are looking for some festival quotes to encapsulate the great vibe, here are some great ideas for festival captions for Instagram and beyond that you can use with your photos and videos.

I think festivals are truly one of the happiest places on earth. They’re a place where weirdness is the norm, everyone has a love of music in common, and the only thing you have to worry about is which artist you want to see next and whether to go get another beer or put more glitter on your face (a festival quote by me :P)

After leaving a festival it can sometimes be hard to put these feelings into words as you reintegrate the experience you just had into your normal life. But I think these music festival quotes will help you do just that.

Here are some of the best quotes on festivals from around the world – from artists and musicians, authors, celebrities, and general festival lovers like me who have been changed by the world of festivals and know what a special place they really are. Check the photo captions for more content and guides on my website from my travels to festivals around the world!

Top 10 Festival Quotes of All Time

Here are some of the best quotes about festivals that encompass why they are so incredible and very important to us all.

• “Festival Season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.” – Unknown
• “If festivals were free, you’d never see me again.”   – Unknown
• “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono
• “Here’s to the nights that turned into mornings, and the friends that turned into family.” 
• “Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you’ve heard but not had the chance to check out.” — Johnny Marr
• “Festivals are happy places, and you don’t really want to enjoy them on your own.” –  Christine and The Queens
• “ Festival season only comes once a year, so let’s celebrate while it’s here.” – Unknown
• “I just want to travel all over the world and go to music festivals” 
• “It’s a place where we can forget about our problems for a little while.” 
• “There’s nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don’t think anyone comes to a festival going, I’m gonna be a complete bummer today.” – Gary Clark
• “Generally, when I come to festivals , I just wander freely and see what happens.” — St. Lucia

Music Festival Quotes

These are some music festival quotes from artists and music lovers that speak specifically about why music festivals are always a special place for anyone attending them – from performers to attendees.

• “At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have a massive euphoric moment because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing.” — Jamie XX
• “Clapping your hands when you like a band is way better than clicking some ‘like’ button.”  – Unknown
• “There’s just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!” — Kygo
• “Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.” — Henry Ward Beecher
• “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Berthold Auerbach
• “Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.” – Scott Hutchinson 
• “I love that there’s always something happening at festivals. it takes some of the pressure away, too, because you’re one person on the bill.” – Sigrid
• “I discovered after going to music festivals, that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing and the abandon of rock fans. ” — Beyoncé Knowles
• “Music is the poetry of the air.” – Ritchet
• “Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents, and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.” – Tom Hodgkinson
• “But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.” – Yo-Yo Ma

Festival Vibes Quotes + Captions for Instagram

Here are some shorter festival captions for Instagram and other social media posts to fit your posts perfectly. There are some perfect quotes about music from famous songs or simple festival vibes captions you will love.

• “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck.”
• “Someone told me there’s a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.” — Led Zeppelin, Going To California
• “Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand.”
• “Everyone has their thing, music festivals are my thing.”
• “Music is a safe kind of high.”
• “Let the Good Vibes Roll”
• “I don’t follow the crowd – I move through them.”
• “I don’t want this song to ever end.”
• “You can’t buy happiness but you can buy festival tickets and that’s pretty much the same thing.”
• “Rave till the grave.”
• “Holdin’ nothin’ back, like it’s our last dance.” — Dua Lipa, “Last Dance” 
• “Festival season should never end.”
• “Sometimes music is the only medicine the heart and soul need.” 
• “You belong among the wildflowers.” — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Wildflowers”
• “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
• “Over here slaying festival style like…”
• “We’re here because of the music.
• “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” — Billy Joel
• “Keep calm and sing with the crowd.”
• “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” — Jason Mraz
• “Feels like I just got back from a festival”

More Festival Captions Ideas

Here are more festival captions that should work for many kinds of different festivals.

• “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” —Rumi
• “Go where the good vibes are.”
• “Behind every girl’s favorite song there is an untold story.”
• “Let’s go where the music takes us.”
• “All it takes is one song to bring back a thousand memories.”
• “Take me to the desert.”
• “Imagine if I wore this outfit to work.”
• “May you never be too grown up to dance your heart out.”
• “It’s more than music to us.”
• “I feel invincible when I’m at a festival.”
• “It’s not just a festival, it’s an experience.”
• “I just wanna party all night in the neon lights.”
• “We lose ourselves in the arms of this crowd.”
• “There’s no place like the festival grounds.”

Funny Festival Captions and Quotes

If you’re looking for something a little more light-hearted and silly, here are some funny festival quotes and captions that will make you smile.

• “I just want someone who will take me to a festival instead of a fancy dinner.”
• “Why be moody when you can shake yo booty?”
• “Keep calm and dance ’till sunrise.”
• “Missy Elliott was right. Music makes you lose control.”
• “Life’s Short, Go to a Festival.”
• “I want a boyfriend that will buy me festival tickets….or maybe just the festival tickets.”
• “If you still look cute at the end of the festival, you didn’t go hard enough.”
• “A moment of silence for all the festivals we miss because we can’t afford the tickets.”
• “Mood: Techno.”
• “Hey Alexa, take me to Coachella”
• “A little party never killed nobody, so we gon’ dance until we drop.” – Fergie
• “Life Isn’t perfect, but your outfits can be”
• “I’d rather be at a festival.”
• “This song is gonna be stuck in my head forever, but I’m not complaining.”
• “Kiss my bass.”

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