Art Quote by David Byrne

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the…

— Andrea Bocelli

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our…

— Tod Machover

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 can trigger feelings, which in turn produce thoughts and images in our minds — it is these thoughts and images that can become…

— Richard Watson

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 can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first…

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Yehudi Menuhin

I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all…

— David Sanborn

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…

— Bill Walton

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

We feel this passion that we have for music and this relentless need to pursue it and follow it and go wherever it takes.…

— Chrissy Costanza

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn