Music Speaks Quotes

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

The music speaks for itself!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

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

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

Let the music speak for itself.

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.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

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.

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

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

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

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

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

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

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

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Where words leave off, music begins.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

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

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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

Where words fail, music speaks.