What is music? [c/o famous person]?

Answer 1

Nobody above seems to notice you wanted a quote from a famous person about what music is. Here it goes:

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther

Music is a laudable medium of soothening the hearts of people.
M.S. Subbulakshmi

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
Luciano Berio

Music is organized sound.
Edgard Varèse

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.
Carl Jung

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
Thomas Aquinas

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it.
Mariah Carey

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Answer 2

Here are some of my absolute favorite quotes on music. Enjoy! :)

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
-Leopold Stokowski

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
-Herbie Hancock

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
-Yehudi Menuhin

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo

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

Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul.
-Katie Greenwood

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
-Thomas Carlyle

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
-Pat Conroy

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 is the vernacular of the human soul.
-Geoffrey Latham

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
-Charlie Parker

Answer 3

Music is what calms me, puts a smile on my face, makes my brain stop working so hard for a few minutes. Music also helps my little boy learn. He sang a song before he spoke.

Music is a part of me!

Music is food for the soul!

Answer 4

Music is completely subjective, as is any art form. (This is what I tell myself when I listen to music I can't stand.) There is no fine line, no set of rules, no police to keep everything in C Major, and that's what let's it all evolve. That's what let's inspired composers inspire everyone else with revolutionary ideas.

Answer 5

Music is the reminder of the soul's divinity.

Answer 6

music is an expressive art form and one of the only true universal languages.

Answer 7

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.