Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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 is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa