Abstract Quote by Oliver Sacks

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

— Oliver Sacks

Music is made from the heart and the mind. It is every emotion a human being can convey.

— Travis Benton

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

— George Santayana

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the…

— David Sanborn

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

Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born…

— Kathleen Hanna

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

— Anne Frasier

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

— Ilaiyaraaja

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

— Van Cliburn

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art…

— Franz Liszt

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

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

— Greg Lake