Quotes on Music Is

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Music is love in search of a word.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.