The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.