Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Music is the soul of language.
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
Music is the medicine of the mind.
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.