After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Aaron Carter
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
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Jenna Spencer said,
March 19, 2012 at 1:45 am
curse me out in free verse, wind me up and reverse, patience is a virtue, until the silence burns you~TV on the Radio