Abstract Quote by Helene Grimaud

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

— Helene Grimaud

“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

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday…

— Tamas Vasary

“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal…

— Ellen J. Barrier

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

— Igor Stravinsky

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to…

— Rafael Vinoly

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being.…

— Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

— Gordon Getty

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening -…

— John Coltrane