Music & Dance Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

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

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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

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.

For me, music and life are all about style.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 part of God's universe.

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

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

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

People dance at any age.

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

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

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.

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 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 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 is love in search of a word.

Music really is our daily medicine.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

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.

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

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

Music is an outburst of the soul.

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

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

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

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

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Music is the soul of language.

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.

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 happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

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

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.