Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

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

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music really is our daily medicine.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.

Music is part of God's universe.

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

I've always felt connected to music. There was always music playing at home, and I'd just dance and sing.

Travel is always connected to music, as with travel, we explore the world, and by listening music, we explore ourselves.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

People dance at any age.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.

Music is the soul of language.

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.

Music is love in search of a word.

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.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.