Quotes on World Music

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

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

If music be the food of love, play on.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

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

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

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

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.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

Where words leave off, music begins.

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