Music Tattoos for Men
Just like songs themselves, music tattoos can be extremely expressive and compelling. A tattoo says something. While tattoos were once a way to show the desire to rebel, now tattoos are considered a true form of art, of expressing one's individuality. Through music tattoos, men can exert their unique identities and create a sense of presence, dynamism, and intelligence.
Finding the Best Music Tattoos for Men
Finding music tattoos for men is something that requires thinking about your favorite music types. If you are fond of music in general, consider simply finding treble clef tattoos or staff lines as a way of expressing your musical identity. If you play a specific instrument, or love one instrument, you might consider a tattoo of it, such as the sax, the guitar, the violin, or the piano.
Logos and Artwork
You can also look for designs for music tattoos for men that are simply word-based, such as the popular "Words Fail, Music Speaks" logo. Or what about a tattoo of a heart with electric music cables wrapped around it? You could opt for a more complex tattoo that wraps around the whole arm, detailing treble and bass clefs, microphones, musical notes, and instruments.
Placement on the Body
Tattoos for men can be elegantly placed all over the body; on the neck, the arm, the back, or the wrist. Pick a spot that best shows off your unique body type and also speaks of your love for music.
Music tattoos for men are especially artistic because they create a sense of flow, of line, of design. They help to create a sense of art -- both of the male body and of music itself. When one views a tattoo, one is put in mind of the image itself. Seeing a tattoo on your body of your favorite band, instrument, or design will help to express to other people what your personality is, what your musical tastes are. It will tell the world how you love music -- and even inspire the same love in others.
Your Favorite Musical Style
Other forms of popular music tattoos for men include rock, rap, or punk styles -- as well as hip hop. Any style of music you happen to life can help to express your love of certain artists. Maybe you really like Eminem, the Rolling Stones, or the band "Disturbed." You can select art from your favorite bands and incorporate it into your design. For example, a flaming guitar for a rock band -- or even the band's art itself, the cover or logo design, as part of your tattoo.
Tattoos Are Available to Anyone
While performers were once the only individuals who could prominently display music tattoos for men, now anyone can get a tattoo. Body art is a complex and beautiful way to show your appreciation for music, for art, for life. Simply find the designs you like best and show them to your trusted tattoo designer and get yourself inked. When you see your new tattoo, you will feel the same sense of wonder that only music can bring - or in this case, a unique musical tattoo.
Check out the best music tattoos for men
This drawing reveals a simplistic, minimal, and stylish Media Control Panel. Including the popular buttons for Previous Track, Pause, Play, and Next Track, this design also presents an Infinity Button, suggesting that our inner songs can never truly leave us behind.
The quote reads: "I don't want to be an angel, I just want to be GOD". There's a red Japanese Rising Sun, bathing a partially exhibited electric guitar, from which you can see the pickups, frets, fret markers, and most of the neck.
Not all inks have to be flamboyant to make a statement. This piece of art is an all-black electric guitar in a fine, minimal drawing style. It strongly resembles the Gibson B.B. King Lucille model, immortalized by the blues legend.
Long before MP3 and digital content, it was the time of the phonograph (or gramophone is you're British). This beautifully drawn tattoo is an homage to those times as you can see the stylus playing on a partially displayed vinyl record.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about music? This ink quotes: "Words Fail, Music Speaks", as each line of the phrase is simply written in a modest font, inversely facing one another in some form of ever-lasting duality dance.
Continuing with our meaningful phrases, this drawing reads: "Art, Music & Love". Without them, life would be pretty much pointless, as they also depend on each other, to exist. The style is reminiscent of those hand-sewn signs our grandmas used to decorate our homes.
This piece of art renders another Media Control Panel, but this one is slightly different and with a phrase on it, which reads: "Music is Life". The Panel includes the Rewind, Pause, Play, and Forward buttons, along with the Repeat button as well.
Designed entirely by dots, straight lines, circles, semi-circles, and some arrows, this tattoo doesn't explicitly send a message. Rather it dwells in your mind as an electric guitar, or an acoustic guitar, and possible even a bass or other string instrument.
Jazz legend Theolonious Monk once said: "The piano ain't got no wrong notes". He was a very smart man, all in favor, check this ink out. Flats and sharps are elegantly laid out in this piano keyboard decorated with a G-clef on top.
So many emotions pouring out of this drawing. A man and a woman, possibly even Perfect Strangers, synced in harmony by a tune. Their hearts beating in unison at one of the purest expressions of love. Music is all we need.
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An old microphone stands alone, just waiting for some company. A song is played and the room lights up. A delicate design of the classical icon, the Shure 55SH brought to fame by The King of Rock and Roll himself, Elvis Presley.
Another expression for Music is Life. This piece of art displays a beating heart-rate line coming out of a G-clef. As long as there is music out there, we can never truly die, our lives are never-ending tunes in the world.
Our hands are better used when creating art and music. So why don't bring that expression to your knuckles, adorning them with a G-clef, a double quaver, an F-clef, and a single quaver. They're simple yet meaningful.
A message that reads: "True" on the knuckles. This ink is cleverly laid out so that you can clearly see a G-clef in-lined and left untouched on the wrist, over a background drawn with a rose in bloom and some other musical notes just floating around.
Following the in-lined tattoo designs we have a bold G-clef left alone, and what appears to be the aftermath of a bucket of black paint being thrown into a wall or a mirror, but magically leaving the clef untouched and standing.
One of the best music tattoos for men out there. An F-clef on the left side of the chest, drawn by broad, brute, splashy strokes, leads the musical charge for a pentagram to follow its path all over the left arm.
This work is a fine piece of art. A blooming rose, starts showing different pentagrams and musical notes on each petal. It is as though each petal carries along its own song, just waiting for the perfect moment to play them.
What is one without the other? A G-clef faces an F-clef in what appears to be an aquarelle storm, full of different colors, brought to life by the magical touch of the sound of music. Where others see gray, we see colors.
A hero can never get enough accolades and tributes. In this version, the Shure 55SH tags along some cartoonesque musical notes, clefs, and stars. It doesn't matter what the weather forecast says for today, music will get you singing in the rain.
Dwelling at the very center of the back, there's a lonely heart. But is it? Music is born from it, and rapidly spreads and fills the entire space where it resides. Single tunes and full songs alike, they light up our moods.
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Immortalized by legends like Hendrix, Gilmoure, and Clapton, a Fender Stratocaster is blazed by candor and sealed with a good-bye kiss in this emotional drawing. The message reads: "Sing it sweet in Heaven", a tribute to anyone who lived their lives by music.
In a beautiful tattoo design that reminds us of a flaming motorcycle banner, we have a pentagram along with a G-clef, some sharps, and a few musical notes that are undoubtedly sending us a musical message through our hearts and souls.
For all metal fans out there, here we see this bad-ass skeleton impaling his own skull with a guitar. You can also see the whammy and the demon head-stock on the neck. But he's not done, now he's gonna play it.
Popularized by The Killers, this ink displays the title for arguably they greatest hit song ever: "When You Were Young". This work is also ornamented by a pentagram, along with a G-clef, sharps, musical notes and some initials over a cool shady background.
No music tattoo list would ever be complete without a reference to Brazil. Quoting Tupamaru's classic, Dead Fish, it reads: "Se não dançam todos, não dança ninguém" or "Unless you all dance, then nobody dances". This work is decorated with a double bass resting on a cloud and flowers.
With the leafy flowers in the background encircling the scroll upon which a musical piece is inscribed, this tattoo appeals to more romantic souls. Done entirely on the back, it blends the nature with music, radiating the true love of both.
The intricate depiction of many music symbols are given in the bold, tribal lines. The treble clef in the middle, holding the entire edifice together, invites you into the game of discerning all the symbols involved. The music will help you play the game.
This tattoo sets out to portray one of the most transcending acts of all, that of singing. The woman’s lovely lips, the only thing done in color, breathe out a song, giving it a life to freely bend and wind about the shoulder.
Spanning across more than an entire upper arm, the tattoo utterly transforms it. From the roses on top to the piano keys down at the bottom, there is a world of music in between that make this one of the best tattoo ideas for men.
There is much more going on in this tattoo than a first glance may suggest. The electric guitar, instead of playing, seems to rather embody the curling background music. Ornaments of notes and colored stars are not random, they indeed have their master - it’s the treble and the two bass clefs forming a heart shape.
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This depiction of a vintage microphone below which there’s the Rock ’n’ Roll inscription is a true statement. It’s a statement of style, but also, and perhaps more importantly, a statement of a way of life.
The tattoo presents another vintage theme, but this time of a boombox hosting a joyful little bird on top of it. Besides the music tape run wild, the extensive use of orange is what gives the scene a bit more urban feel.
The lovers of tattoos and classical music will marvel at seeing this one. It depicts a lovely combination of colors and shapes, the former dominated by the chocolate-red, the latter by a stylish cello peg box.
This is a perfect tattoo for those who dream of inking a music piece on their shoulder. Multiple layers of paper only add to the beauty and depth of the scene.
As a splash of black that failed to cover the shape of a treble clef, this is a more minimalistic music tattoo. The full, dense black immediately catches the eye of any who might passingly notice it, wondering whether the black ink finished its slide.
The bending staff from the background invades the leafy forefront treble clef. With its lack of sharp and jagged lines, this medium size music tattoo is itself a piece, itself the music.
This is a depiction of a vast tree that branches off from a stable electric guitar root. The tattoo features an extensive use of color as the red and orange of the guitar blend into green. The entire guitar-tree edifice aims to connect, or indeed reconnect music with nature.
The tattoo is an illusory portrayal of a staff unwinding its way across the foot. Stretching as far as the foot allows, the staff hosts the notes that willingly form a music piece.
The first glance at the tattoo might convince that If anywhere the colors steal the show, it would be here. But the first glance might just as well be wrong, for the main star of the tattoo is perhaps the absence of color, the vast treble clef in the middle. But whichever way you look, one thing is certain: This tattoo is gorgeous.
The piano keys, a microphone, and a cello peg box; is there anything that might enhance the music symbolism in this tattoo? Indeed there is - it’s the sprawling roses.
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There are not many chest headphone tattoos, and even less that are this good. The medium sized tattoo portrays headphones that vibe out the music signals. With the headphones plugged right into the heart, the tattoo sends an obvious message.
The tattoo shows a piano played by an artful hand. An airy note of pale blue gives the feeling that we’re witnessing an intimate scene that we don’t fully understand, and nor are supposed to. It’s a sneak peak at the music creation or indeed at the creative process on the whole.
The powerful, bashing strokes of red emphasize the presence of the clef and the rose among the notes and speakers. But the most intense red goes to the A encircled - the symbol of anarchy.
Back in the old days of boomboxes, the music cassettes were nothing to be unfamiliar with. Now, with them falling out of fashion, cassettes prominently feature in the music tattoos for guys. This one, with the tape winding about, tries to conjure up the days long passed.
This is a rather unusual portrayal of a treble clef. Seemingly cast in stone, the clef is ornamented by the multiplicity of cracks around it. It is almost as if the music itself tries to break free from the bonds of the body.
It’s yet another representation of a treble clef, albeit a completely different one. We don’t get the clef’s full shape here, only the few casual brushstrokes that suggest it. The vivid red offers much needed refreshment, lending its vigor to the bold blacks about it.
The vintage black & white tattoo depicts a gramophone, transforming the back of a hand into a music-radiating machine. The tape’s oval shape pushes to a circle, even catching the fingers along its path.
Follow the seemingly endless tape of staff as it unwinds across the forearm. The tattoo, decorated by stars among the shaded space, symbolizes the uninterrupted flow of music across the ages.
An entire arm needs to be devoted to this tattoo. But once the devotion is made, the arm will be the host of a music piece coupled with the intermissions of black ink forming unusual shapes.
This tattoo makes the most out of your shoulder, depicting a retro mike with the musical notes curling in the background. The stylish treble clef, by looming above, also makes its appearance.