Quotes on Music Is My Life

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

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

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.

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

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

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