"MUSIC IS ..." (quotations about music)

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Thomas Carlyle)

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. (Pablo Casals)

Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. (Claude Debussy, in a letter to a pupil)

Music is the soul of language. (Max Heindel)

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. (Walter Savage Landor)

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. (Charlie Parker)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow)

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. (Walter Pater)

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations. (Ruby Dee)

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste. (Duke Ellington)

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. (Joseph Addison)

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach)

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. (Leonard Bernstein)

If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. (Edgar Cayce)

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me ... You'd have to remove the music surgically. (Ray Charles)

You are the music while the music lasts. (T. S. Eliot)

We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. (Jerry Garcia)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. (Victor Hugo)

The history of a people is found in its songs. (George Jellinek)

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. (Geoffrey Latham)

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. (Giuseppe Mazzini)

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. (Alanis Morissette)

Without music life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. (Elvis Presley)

The best music ... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. (Bruce Springsteen)

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. (George Szell)