Top 79 Quotes About Music Speaks
#1. 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.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rod Stewart
#3. 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.
Luke James
#4. I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
Drake Bell
#5. The music speaks for itself, there's no need to say anything
Paulo Coelho
#6. 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.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#7. 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.
Andy Garcia
#8. 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.
Eduard Hanslick
#9. The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
Bun E. Carlos
#11. 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.
Carlos Santana
#12. There's a thing in music that wants to change people. A thing that speaks to the soul. And there's a thing in people that listens, and changes when the music speaks.
Katherine Lampe
#13. 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.
Tim McIlrath
#14. In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak Perlman
#15. Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.
John McLaughlin
#16. Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.
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#17. 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.
Pam Brown
#18. Music" - he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger - "music speaks for the soul because words are too small.
Dennis Lehane
#19. 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.
Zach Condon
#20. Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.
Stephen Marley
#21. I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
R. Kelly
#22. The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing.
Charles Manson
#24. I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
Rita Ora
#25. I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.
Lilly Singh
#26. Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.
Maya Angelou
#27. Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
Franz Liszt
#28. No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp.
A.E. Coppard
#29. It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.
Dean Koontz
#30. Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.
Mark Hall
#31. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
Talib Kweli
#33. Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#34. I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.
Mike Pesca
#36. There is music in your soul. A wild and untamed sort
of music that speaks to me. It defies all the rules and laws you humans set upon it. It grows from inside you, and I have a wish to set that music free.
S. Jae-Jones
#37. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
Hannah Harrington
#38. I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.
Heather Headley
#39. The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
Stevie Wonder
#40. If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
Andrae Crouch
#41. Pharrell's affected everyone through music. To work with someone like that - it's a gift. You ever meet somebody you can learn so much from, and all you have to do is be quiet and watch? That's what it was like. I took in how he moves, speaks, how he creates, the whole nine.
Shameik Moore
#42. The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
Kenny Loggins
#43. I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
Steve Hackett
#44. A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning.
Pamela Brown
#45. I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite.
Lily Collins
#46. Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
#47. Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It's magic.
Cindi Madsen
#48. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#49. 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.
Keith Richards
#50. I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.
Paris Hilton
#51. Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
Judy Collins
#52. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#53. Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
Franz Liszt
#54. My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Ziggy Marley
#55. It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
Anton Bruckner
#56. Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.
The Unknown
#57. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
Herbie Hancock
#59. Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.
Jim Henson
#60. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light - grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
Eleanor Catton
#61. I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.
Edward Norton
#62. In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
#63. Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.
Truth Hurts
#64. He waits until dark. Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and the transmitter in the attic. His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight . . .
Anthony Doerr
#65. Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.
Teddy Thompson
#66. Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
George Jones
#67. Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.
Tony Grisoni
#68. It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me. Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me.
Lucy Hale
#69. Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting
Edouard Vuillard
#70. Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.
Riccardo Muti
#71. If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
Trevor Dunn
#72. But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal. Mad music ...
Virginia Woolf
#74. It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.
Natalia Makarova
#75. Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
Ruben Blades
#76. 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
Yelawolf
#77. The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
George Santayana
#78. Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days ... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
Nas
#79. There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
Ivor Novello
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