Contemplation Quote by Corinne Heline

Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends…

— Leopold Stokowski

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that…

— Plato

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

— Tomas Luis de Victoria

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

Music is part of being human.

— Anonymous

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

— Confucius

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

— Charlotte Gray

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be…

— Charles Ives

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive…

— Aaron Copland