Quotes About Meaning

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.