Appetite Quote by Steven Adler

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling…

— El-P

“I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever…

— Ilya Kaminsky

“Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed anger, unhealthy,…

— The Eldest

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

— Simon Rattle

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

— Frederic Chopin

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

— Leonard Bernstein

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom.…

— Benjamin Britten

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in…

— Zoltan Kodaly

“If there is one thing I can say without a doubt, it is that tragedy can make great music. Every single song I have…

— Muse en Lystrala

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”

— Iain McGilchrist