Quotes on Music Is

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,_x000D_ and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Music is love searching for a word.

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

Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

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

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.