Quotes on Music And Life

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Music can change the world because it can change people.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. 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.