Quotes on Music Speaks

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

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

The artist must forget the audience, _x000D_ forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music._x000D_ Then, the music speaks through the performance,_x000D_ and the performer and the listener will walk together_x000D_ with the soul of the composer, and with_x000D_ God.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Where words leave off, music begins.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.