Ancestor Quote by Anonymous

Music is part of being human.

— Anonymous

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive…

— Lewis Thomas

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

— Ken Hill

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

— Yehudi Menuhin

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

— Jean Michel Jarre

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

— Oliver Sacks

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor…

— Robert Shaw

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine.…

— Joan Osborne

The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All…

— Mirah

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't…

— John Towner Williams

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

— Nellie McKay

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

— Charlotte Gray