Music Quotes

"Music transcends all boundaries and languages."

"The power of music lies in its immediacy."

"Music is organized sound and emotion."

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

"When you listen consciously, every sound transforms."

"Music is a language beyond words."

"I compose for all humanity."

"Noise is only music not yet understood."

"The sound of silence is the richest music."

"Music is the voice of the soul."

"Music is the language of the cosmos."

"Music is organized sound; silence is organized time."

"Music transcends all language barriers."

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a lie."

"The twentieth century, which has not learned to sing, must learn to listen."

"The role of the composer is to listen more than to speak."

"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."

"To hear is to participate; passive listening is a contradiction."

"The heart of music is not melody; it is intention."

"When you compose, you are dealing with the deepest forces of the universe."

"I compose according to the laws of the universe, not convention."

"Music that doesn't challenge doesn't enlighten."

"Musique concrète is the art of listening to the world around us."

"The composer's true instrument is silence, not sound."

"Every sound is a word in the language of existence."

"The power of music lies in its refusal to be reduced to words."

"Sound is the poetry of science."

"The task of the composer is not to invent sounds, but to use those sounds that already exist, to transform them in an organized way."

"The listener must become an active participant in the musical experience."

"The symphony form remains vital if approached with fresh ears."