What is music?
While this question feels pretty much basic, it will be hard to come up with a solid definition. So we decided to let these nice people describe this… thing.
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
– Bob Marley“If music be the food of love, play on.”
– William Shakespeare“Where words fail, music speaks.”
– Hans Christian Andersen“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
– Plato“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
– Victor Hugo“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
– Marilyn Manson“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”
– Billy Joel“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
– Bono“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
– Lao Tzu“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
– Martin Luther“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven“The world’s most famous and popular language is music.”
– Psy“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Berthold Auerbach“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
– Maurice Ravel“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
– William Congreve“Music should be your escape.”
– Missy Elliott“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.”
– John Lennon“I see music as fluid architecture.”
– Joni Mitchell“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
– Jean Paul“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
– Frank Zappa“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”
– Dick Clark“Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
– Walter Savage Landor“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.”
– Jason Mraz“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
– Claude Debussy“Music became a healer for me.”
– Eric Clapton
So now you know the answer(s) to this question 🙂
And if not, that is Ok, you are in a good company:
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
– Elvis Presley
