Disclosed are a device and method for providing an image related to playing music. Information about the mood of the playing music and information about the state of the user listening to the music are collected, and one or more relevant images corresponding to at least one of the mood information and the state information may be extracted from a user image source pool and may be output to the terminal of the user. Because background images matching the mood of the music to which the user is listening or the environment of the user listening to the music are provided, the user may recall the memory related to the image and the situation when the image was stored while listening to the music, whereby the corresponding music may sound more familiar to the user.