Above Quote by Charles Munch

“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

— Igor Stravinsky

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age…

— Samuel Pepys

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Ken Hill

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind,…

— Igor Stravinsky

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

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

— Pearl S. Buck

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

— Eldar Djangirov

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and…

— Wanda Landowska