Quotes About Humanity

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Music is part of being human.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.