Some interesting quotations on the subject of music.…

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Victor Hugo (French poet and novelist, 1802-1885)
 

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
~Charlie Parker (American jazz musician, 1920-1955)

If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out.

~Louis Armstrong (American jazz musician, 1901-1971)

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

~Georgia O’Keeffe (American artist, 1887-1986)

"Music Pink and Blue" by Georgia O'Keefe

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of

boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
~Frank Zappa (American rock musician, 1940-1993)
 

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

~Henry van Dyke (American author, 1852-1933)

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
~John Lennon (British rock musician, 1940-1980)

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

~Albert Einstein (German physicist, 1879-1955)

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
~Zimbabwe Proverb

"African Musicians" by Upjohn

Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?
~Leonardo da Vinci (Italian artist and scientist, 1452-1519)

One ought, everyday at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and speak a few reasonable words.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet, 1749-1832)

 Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

~Plato (Greek philosopher, circa 428 B.C.-347 B.C.)

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

~Ludwig van Beethoven (German composer, 1770-1827)

"Girls at the Piano" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
~Johann Sebastian Bach (German composer, 1685-1750)

The life of the arts far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.

~John F. Kennedy (U.S. President, 1917-1963)

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

~Bob Marley (Jamaican reggae musican, 1945-1981)

In the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity.

~Henry Miller (American author,1891-1981)

"Abstract Piano" by Paul Brent

Background Music:  "Footprints" by Wayne Shorter