Here are some quotes I found on the Internet where many philosophers and musicians explain in simple statements what music is to them:
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
All music is beautiful.
Any good music must be an innovation.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
If music be the food of love, play on.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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 a performance and needs the audience.
Music is love in search of a word.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Music is my religion.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Music is the soul of language.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Music should be your escape.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
When words leave off, music begins.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Great collection about music quotes. I have compiled many quotes from you. Thanks for sharing.
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