Music can be beneficial for anyone. Although it can be used therapeutically for people who have physical, emotional, social, or cognitive deficits, even those who are healthy can use music to relax, reduce stress, improve mood, or to accompany exercise. There are no potentially harmful or toxic effects. Music therapists help their patients achieve a number of goals through music, including improvement of communication, academic strengths,attention span, and motor skills. They may also assist with behavioral therapy and pain management.

Depending on the type and style of sound, music can either sharpen mental acuity or assist in relaxation. Memory and learning can be enhanced, and this used with good results in children with learning disabilities. This effect may also be partially due to increased concentration that many people have while listening to music. Better productivity is another outcome of an improved ability to concentrate. The term "Mozart effect" was coined after a study showed that college students performed better on math problems when listening to classical music.

http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/435/Music-Therapy.html

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

                                -----   Roy Ayers

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Here is a lovely quote by "Leo Tolstoy":

                         "Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Music is divine and is the food of the soul and spirit. Through the power and charm of music the spirit of man is uplifted. It has wonderful swing and impact not only on human but also said to be on other living subjects. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.- Plato

Music can be beneficial for anyone. Although it can be used therapeutically for people who have physical, emotional, social, or cognitive deficits, even those who are healthy can use music to relax, reduce stress, improve mood, or to accompany exercise. There are no potentially harmful or toxic effects. Music therapists help their patients achieve a number of goals through music, including improvement of communication, academic strengths,attention span, and motor skills. They may also assist with behavioral therapy and pain management.

Depending on the type and style of sound, music can either sharpen mental acuity or assist in relaxation. Memory and learning can be enhanced, and this used with good results in children with learning disabilities. This effect may also be partially due to increased concentration that many people have while listening to music. Better productivity is another outcome of an improved ability to concentrate. The term "Mozart effect" was coined after a study showed that college students performed better on math problems when listening to classical music.

http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/435/Music-Therapy.html

Music alone without words has a mood, and interacts with the listener’s mood.  When I am happy, I would listen to Vivaldi’s pieces or light pieces by Haydn or Mozart.  My happiness increases manifold.  When I am sad, I would lose my sorrows with the loud expressive pieces by Beethoven.  Certainly this is healthy.  This is why MUSIC IS THE FOOD FOR THE SOUL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA

i agree to saying because it helps to calm the person listening to the music down provided he/she is listening to the right music and at the right time

In my opinion, life without music is "too dry". Many creatures, including the human beings, are raised up in soul & spirits by good music. I know farmers who increased the production of milk by proper music played for the cows! In the Izmir district (Turkey), production of natural silk is accompanied by music played to the caterpillars. You & me feel very well & produce more in an atmosphere of soft music.

Nature has given us enormous things to enjoy and one of them is singing voices of birds

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

I would like to bring an interesting article related to the oldest musical instrument that it has been mentioned so many times in the holy "Bible".

Ancient Harp from Ur 

The earliest harps and lyres were found in Sumer, 3500 BC, and several harps were found in burial pits and royal tombs in Ur. The oldest depictions of harps without a forepillar can be seen in the wall paintings of ancient Egyptian tombs dating from as early as 3000 B.C. which show an instrument that closely resembles the hunter's bow, without the pillar that we find in modern harps.

In ancient times the harp was played with the hand while walking. It had multiple strings and sometimes a sounding board, as with this harp excavated in the ruins of ancient Ur, where Abraham originally lived. 

Notice this harp has 11 strings with a nicely ornamented sounding board with a ram's head at the end. 

Isaiah 23:16 - Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

Psalms 147:7 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

Genesis 4:21 - And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Psalms 98:5 - Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.please, see these lovely pictures of harps:

http://sumerianshakespeare.com/117701/117901.html

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

If you like Sitar, please, see and listen to those "Biryani Boys": I do love dedicated Classical Indian Music! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTPxqUtlLdo&autoplay=1&app=desktop

When music combines with words/lyrics, it is even more expressive.  Many people are very fond of the sentimental songs of the 70s and 80s.  How did it affect our lives? Emotions are expressed very openly. Many people were very fond of the Beatles' songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEqN16zrukA

How else did it affect our lives? Music was often heard from open windows of our neighbors’ apartments. Besides the Beatles, other bands were popular. I liked The Carpenters. Solo singers that were popular included Andy Williams, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. ENGLISH POP SONGS were well known and well loved all over the world. My dad made use of them in teaching English.

Listen to the songs, and you will agree that sentimental love is openly expressed. I believe that this partly caused many changes in society, in some cases deepening the generation gap.  (Music students like me will tell you the negatives besides the positives of music.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkKUeDvCBW8

Music is a universal language; it cuts across cultural, ethnic, language, and socioeconomic boundaries. 

Music can communicate without words, calm our mood, express our feelings, comfort our soul, lift our spirit, ease our pain, and stir us into action!

Music beautifies our lives!

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent. ~  Victor Hugo

How did music affect my life, as a music student, as a science teacher and as a citizen in a multi-ethnic society?  I decided that I should be practical and responsible and do my part to achieve inter ethnic integration.  So I made use of our Malaysian ethnic music, and familiarized my students to their shared heritage.

Conference Paper MUSIC PREFERENCES OF MALAYSIAN STUDENTS AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." 

    ----  Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author & physician (1809 - 1894)

Dear Hazim Hashim Tahir ,

Music Nature constantly awakens in man the sense of music; She encourages him to express a feeling using a tool or singing. It is through music people constantly conveys his feelings and sensations, it is with the help of music, he expresses his religious feeling and that with her help, he conveys his sorrow, his joy, his love and his most profound experiences.

Music - is the breath of the soul and consciousness. Through music, the soul manifests itself on the ground. When the higher consciousness will wake up in a man, when he will develop the capabilities of the more subtle perception, he will begin to hear the grandiose symphony that sounds in space from one end to the universe, and then he will understand the deep meaning of life. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIjEyZ3zTI

agree with Miranda Yeoh in his opinion

Music speaks the most universal language that captures the hearts and soul of people across the world and that touches us emotionally and arouses our soul. Plato said it beautifully:

 "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"

Plato

Indeed music is not only food to our soul and sensations but the cleanser and refresher, that simply tames and takes us to the most comfort zone of our being via a very soothing, non turbulent  and comforting path as a forgetting transformation that disconnects and leaves every bad thing that engulfs us behind at that particular moment.

Music seems to be an innate capability and choice of nature to such purposes and moments which is common almost in every living creatures. Humans sing to express emotions, sadness, anguish, happiness, love, appreciation of beauty and aesthetics and so do other creatures as well.  

"Where words fail, music speaks"

- Hans Christian Andersen

Yes, music refreshes the soul, George, Miranda, and All! 

Try Nature's Symphony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-JR_VhZ2Fk

It is true.Music can accompany one in all moods, ranging from woes to will. It serves as a fillip to the drive of the people. Your topic is so interesting that I could not abstain from answering it. Speaking of my own case, I spent more than 15 years as Music Columnist in Nepal's national English daily though my mainstream function was Sr Associate Editor (Night Desk chief as well as Business-Economy section). I've contributed more than 1,000 articles on music to the English daily between 1997-2012. Congrats for choosing this interesting topic.

It seems like that music refresh the soul and energize the living! It softens the people! It increases love and happiness!

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~Berthold Auerbach

Music ...

Where words fail, music speaks.

--- Hans Christian Andersen

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

--- Victor Hugo

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

                                                                               ----  Lao Tzu

MUSIC PROVIDES US THE POSITIVE SENSE, HAPPY AND PEACE..IT ENHANCES OUR GOODNESS AND HUMANITY...

What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

~Stephen Dunn, about music

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” 

― Kahlil Gibran

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

― Douglas Adams

@Hazim, I place some pieces of the ethnic music pieces that I have been using for my music education research.  Here you are: Malay, Indian and Chinese classicals.

Familiarity with a music increases preference for it.  Liking the music of a culture helps us to overcome prejudices to some extent, because the music represents the culture.  I hope you like our musics well enough to visit us, one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7mTXA1GyFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUZgDS-1v4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBeiYrJo9WE

Music enlivens our brain. The saying "Music is the food of the soul" is considered to express this fact simply and understandably. The following quotes also describe the importance of music to our brain:

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning" ― Plato

"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

 ----- any sound can be music, saying, for example,

"There is no noise, only sound."

In may cultures, music is an important part of their way of life, as it plays a key role in many religious rituals and cultural activities. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to.

However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Classical music is the best and most powerful musical tool that captures and drives the soul, heart, mind and body."

                                                                 – Dr T.P.Chia

To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

_ Yanni

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

                                                                                             -----  Bono

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

– Confucius

Words make you think a thought,  Music makes you feel a feeling.  A song makes you feel a thought.

– E.Y. Harburg

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. 

– Ludwig v Beethoven

I agree with Miranda that music with words (lyrics) is even more expressive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjNfkbQr5zc

Dear All,

I am afraid the vocabulary of a simple man is not sufficient what music means for a humble human being. So I have borrowed a quotation – though I do not like Quotish - from Shakespeare:

“So are you (music) to my thoughts as food to life,

Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;”

I am sure we must listen every day to a musical masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvmfi-dH_6w

a simple folk song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMroaIs7Dpk

or a good chanson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCqTuP1JdFo

I am glad that so many participants expressed their personnel preference for music. In moments like those I really think people must have the same and very cultural heritage. It is worth being a human.   

Dear All,

There are innumerable RG threads on music. I remember only one which had the same approach like the present one: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_music_inexhaustible_Is_it_necessary_in_your_life

Dear All,

Good night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1H_dMrDUNo Gilbert Bécaud Et maintenant = and now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZiubZUNhs Jacques Brel  Ne me quietes pas = do not leave me

We have tow kind of music, Good or Bad. By the way, all music comes from vibration that creates sound.

Good sound can be a rhythmic melody, harmony or beat. Bad sound can be erratic painful to hear or damaging to the ears.

Good music can involve a wide range of sounds or styles or instruments and often is quite creative. Good music has purpose and value.

Bad music provides no purpose or value.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.  ~Alban Berg 

Dear colleagues,

I find this excerpt interesting. It is from the link that follows.  

"Music can support and enrich the development of a positive self-identity as well as provide confidence, motivation and a sense of belonging. Music can enhance creative, social and emotional skills."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-fitzpatrick/why-music-defining-who-we_b_3543504.html

Best regards,

Cameen

Dear Hazim

Dear all

When I read this question, immediately came to my mind a statement made many years ago by Julio Cortazar (1914-1984), one of the main writers of my country (and one of my favorite writers). "Music is more important than literature", he said. 

Of course, this is an entirely arbitrary assertion, but significant coming from a writer. Cortázar loved jazz and, in relation to jazz, he wrote the best short story I've ever read (or at least the short story I liked most): The Pursuer (in Spanish: El Perseguidor)

The story is inspired by the life of saxophonist Charlie Parker and reminds us that, if the music is food for the soul, often it is also the product of tortured souls. The main character, Johnny --a drug addict--, pursues through his music a metaphysical experience. He literally dies by trying to do it. 

If you want to read this short story I attached the English text (pdf). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar

http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3423400020/pursuer.html

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.”

                              -- The Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Kahn (1882-1927)

I'm sure,"the true wealth of Russia is in the consciousness of the best representatives of the national communities of Russia".Our "wronged by life"generation was brought up with Classical music.We listened to the best masterpieces; a lot of us went to musical schools,learned choral singing,ballet and dancing,visited theatres,read good literature,wrote poems.I admire romanticism by Gluck,Grieg,Handel,Albinoni,Bach,Russian composers.Classical music forms the inner world of our souls, sensual perception,empathy,compassion.To Lotman,"The aesthetic means the moral".To Einstein, "Thinking doesn't lead to knowledge; the starting point of researches is sensual perception...Veracity of theoretical thinking is achieved due to its connection with the information of sensual experience".Awareness is emotional experience,personal knowledge.All my works are devoted to students' reflective culture forming(8-steps multicultural project).When we teach students to aware classics,we form emotional memory.Then there is"University is a place,where universals of human spirit find their self-expression"Einstein.

Cerebrum gets information from different organs of sense.Printing on memory is through involving the glial cells and neurons,where there are special ferments.The endorphin-enkephalin system inhibits carrying out the pain impulse.Music stimulates the work of brain.Language is a kind of music,too.Our generation had the only source of learning English.It was "prohibited"music of the hard rock.We listened to it secretely.In childhood I began playing the guitar (classical),but my first song was "Let it be".English and American bands were the symbols of freedom for us.The best examples of hard rock were stamped on my memory and when we say "classics" we mean the best examples of musical culture.My guitar and singing had been my hope on freedom and the greatest self-expression.I felt happiness after a successful concert.Learning language (artificial situation of communication) should be accompanied with music,dancing,staging,painting.Associative links are called "quasi-holographic".Sound message influences reproduction of the message(speech,singing,sounds of instruments).The centers of fingers'movements and the centers of speech are near.The brain of the people with developed musicality contains more cells,and Wernicke's and Broca's zones are greater (perception,recognition,sensory speech).Besides,overtones stimulate reticular formation.I think,my cousin became the greatest classical musician,because he listened to classical music before his birth.To Maugham,"Music is a language,which all may understand" 

As far as I know, music, among other related issues, is highly important into human life and being. This is not because of so-called pleasure,  and or entertainment, but is because it assist at equalizing, as much as possible our biological and emotional components and/or spheres. 

Classical music has shown as curing some of the diseases, mental diseases and or/ syndromes. Not only that it acts as "calming' tool but also as a possibility of neuro-transmitting effects, especially capturing the zones of the brain, where simply the rightful communication process is not possible.

Each one of us may get astonished or too sensitive when listening to artistic music.That engages our overall  sensory abilities, thus  attempting to unite them as one .

After all, music is ac ommunicational tool, as part of our overall behavior. It has a special "code" of understanding each other, of story-telling , as well as of expressing emotions and passions. My semiotics is highly concerned with music: either in understanding the universalities, ( as it can otherwise be visible through other sorts of arts), or in understanding various types of our communication.

Bach's music for instance, not only that is aesthetic, but it is meditative, and curable. Mozart's music only has cured severely affected patients with difficult and scientifically inexplicable phenomena. It enables intra-brain neural communication. 

It thus enables decoding meaning of the still unprocessed scientifically: either theoretically or in terms of its applicability.

There is so much to say about music.

After all, how can a non-musician talk about music?

I have done a stupidity in my MA in attempting  to analyze the characters of Othello and Rigoletto. Not because of the fact that Verdi's  operas, in aisgnificant extent were composed to fulfill the wishes of political authorities, but exactly because of the fact that they are foreseeable, and the "characters' of the stories lived and told,, are already musically expressed in his scores. let us not mention other composers who marked tragicity, happiness, anger, revolutions etc. These are all parts of  ways of making our lives meaningful.

Thank You so much about this important issue. 

Yanni

When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.

Here are links to Yanni's concerts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRQqYGquE6Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKdbTJmNAE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31NxejQ3LkA

Wow! so many answers on a subject and so many votings! This Shows how much Music is a part of our humanity, as everybody is touched!!!

The more i have been wondering since the publication of "The secret life of the plants" by Christopher Byrd & Peter Tompkins 1974 about, how Little his great descriptions of the Cleve Backster effect from 1966 had influence on the sciences and humanities.

In short he proved, that plants first can be influenced positively as negatively by different kinds if Music. Secondly -and this is the more difficult part and maybe the reason of fear and for acdepting his research, that plants can read your mind and react  which you can measure by an electric device connected to the leaf. 

Backster, Cleve: Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and Human Cells. White Rose Millenium Press, Anza, CA, 2003;

http://primaryperception.com

Many old cultures gave concerts in the fields to inhance the growing of their plants. They would not have done if without success. But still our Industrie prefers to sell chemical stuff and to pollute the Environment instead of giving Music to the fields.

I will make this a question now and invite you to answer to me what Kind of agriculture you would prefer.

Wow! so many answers on a subject and so many votings! This Shows how much Music is a part of our humanity, as everybody is touched!!!

The more i have been wondering since the publication of "The secret life of the plants" by Christopher Byrd & Peter Tompkins 1974 about, how Little his great descriptions of the Cleve Backster effect from 1966 had influence on the sciences and humanities.

In short he proved, that plants first can be influenced positively as negatively by different kinds if Music. Secondly -and this is the more difficult part and maybe the reason of fear and for acdepting his research, that plants can read your mind and react  which you can measure by an electric device connected to the leaf. 

Backster, Cleve: Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and Human Cells. White Rose Millenium Press, Anza, CA, 2003;

http://primaryperception.com

Many old cultures gave concerts in the fields to inhance the growing of their plants. They would not have done if without success. But still our Industrie prefers to sell chemical stuff and to pollute the Environment instead of giving Music to the fields.

I will make this a question now and invite you to answer to me what Kind of agriculture you would prefer.

Technical Problems seem to delay putting this as a question...

"Music has the power of bringing people together like no other art form."---Michael Franti

Plato said:

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

Music

Music brings joy, 

to all of our hearts, 

It's one of those, 

emotional arts.

Sounds of melodies, 

that we truly adore, 

Brings us pure pleasure, 

as our spirits do soar.

Music that touches us, 

we can't help but smile, 

We're free to choose, 

genre or style.

Music clearly, 

enlightens our days, 

Makes us happy, 

in so many ways.

by anitapoems.com

 Stevie Wonder once said:

"Music is a world within itself. It's a language we all understand."

What do you think of his statement?

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

                                             ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

What an interesting and insightful quote! Thanks, Hazim.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"When You Are Happy You Enjoy The Music But When You Are Sad You Understand The Lyrics"

                                           ---- Unkown

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Music does bring people together.

It allows us to experience the same emotions.

People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.

No matter what language we speak, what color we are,

the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith,

music proves: We are the same."

                                                                            ~ John Denver ~

Thanks for many wise words @ Hazim and all.  The posts certainly show how music affects our lives.  Here, I attach a conference paper on music preference.  I think you will like to know what are the characteristics of music that determines our preferences for it.  Thanks.

Conference Paper Music Preference and its Intra-Musical Reasons

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Music is the strongest form of magic."

                                                          ----  Marilyn Manson

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

                                                                                                ---- Pablo Casals

"If music be the food of love, play on."

                                                           ----  William Shakespeare

Music is a subtle, suggestive medium of communication, inevitably open to many interpretations depending upon the interpreters, their thought patterns and cultural heritage. Profoundly devotional natures, whatever their backgrounds, would be bound to "tune in" upon the music of the spheres, and experience deep within themselves the moving contact of the outer self with the inner soul or spirit.

Indeed, Music is embedded in every facet of life. One can experience a definite rhythm in heart beat, respiration, and palpitation throughout one's body. Carlos Santana said; "music can change your molecular structure". Music is one of the most beloved human experiences. It not only touches the heart but also manifests the implicit humanity and sensitivity.

I think there is a mutual effects between music and human.Persons like the musics by its nature and based on their culture and life background. Somebody likes pop music and others like traditional musics etc...

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Here are two lovely famous quotes about "music is the food of the soul":

Please, See them .....

Dear Hazim,

They are super words!I'm a meloman, music (my own,classical,or hard rock or every beautiful one) is really food for thought, our comfort,our remembrance,our life.Yury Shevchuk wrote "My Motherland"."I'm traveling to my Motherland. All cry,"Your Motherland is Freak(Monster, an ugly one)", but we love our sleeping beauty.My Motherland is trustful to scums.For us it's tru-la-la-tru-la-la. Hey! A superior!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jmvwG8Su_s" 

Music may be food for the soul of somebody and poison for another one. It dependes on the perception of a person who listen to music.

Music brings happiness in ones lives, makes people more sociable, joyful and interacting, positive and peaceful. Music makes people in harmony with their selves. There are musics for each soul state and each moment of the day. as well as musics for each age. The melody of the music brings a certain harmony in people's psychology.

Music is food for positive attitude, synergy, energy, and happiness!

...and sometimes is a poison for a person that dislike it!

Music Quotes by Famous Musicians

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger, break down and cry"

~ Frou Frou 'the dumbing down of love'

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy

~Ludwig Von Beethoven

"To me...music exists to elevate us as far as possible above everyday life."

~Gabriel Faure

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."

-George Eliot

"There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience." -  - Paul Hindemith

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music"

- Sergei Rachmaninov

"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 bandleader, saxophonist and composer. Principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop. 1920-1955)

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence."

- Leopold Stokowski (British born American conductor known for his influence as a popularizer of classical music. 1882-1977)

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."

- Benjamin Britten

“Music is an outburst of the soul.

- Frederick DeLuis

"Music is the vernacular of the soul"

Music is the hardest kind of art. It doesn't hang up on a wall and wait to be stared at and enjoyed by passersby. It's communication. It's hours and hours being put into a work of art that may only last, in reality, for a few moments...but if done well, and truly appreciated, it lasts in our hearts forever. That's art. Speaking with your heart to the hearts of others. 

-Mr. Dan Romano

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing

Thanks for all the joy they're bringing

Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty

What would life be?

Without a song or a dance what are we?

So I say thank you for the music

For giving it to me

-ABBA

Bach gave us God's word, Mozart gave us God's laughter, Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us music that we might pray without words.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music"- - -Aldous Huxley

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

-Bob Marley

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."

-Billy Joel

 Awesome Music Quotes From Famous Non-Musicians

The Internet is filled with tons of great quotes from musicians, both past and present. While I personally love to check out cool quotes from my musical heroes, I find it extremely gratifying to read the words of non-musicians regarding the impact that music has had on their lives. This is because non-musicians can sometimes show us a perspective that we (musicians) cannot normally see. Also, I think it’s enlightening to read quotes from intelligent and creative people who speak highly about our art form.  Anyway, I hope you find these pearls of wisdom as inspiring as I do. Here we go… 

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”

― Plato

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination

and life to everything.”

― Plato

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

― Victor Hugo

“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”

― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”

― Confucius

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

― Confucius

“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

“Life is for the living.

Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music.

And death a note unsaid.”

― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“The only truth is music.”

― Jack Kerouac

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

― Heinrich Heine

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

― Lao Tzu

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

― Alphonse de Lamartine

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

― George Eliot

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”

― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955

“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”

― William Faulkner

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

― George Bernard Shaw

Yes, music touches our emotions!

Dear Subhash,

Yes, John Depp once said: "Music touches us emotionally where words alone can't."

Music--The Medicine of the Mind by Jennifer Gibson, Pharm.D.:

"Music is the language of the soul. Where words end, music begins. Now, a review article suggests that where modern medicine ends, music begins.

The review evaluated 30 trials that included almost 2,000 cancer patients who received music therapy in concert with traditional treatment. Overall, music had a beneficial effect on the patients’ anxiety levels and moods. Music also decreased the patients’ heart rates, respiratory rates, and blood pressures. Patients reported an increased quality of life after intervention with music therapy...

http://brainblogger.com/2011/09/11/music-the-medicine-of-the-mind/

One of the only activities that activates, stimulates, and uses the entire brain is music.

See ...

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=music+quotes&biw=1536&bih=764&tbm=isch&imgil=a-lss_BG500RUM%253A%253BM5TNfEeQw957pM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fquotesfans.com%25252Fmusic-quotes%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=a-lss_BG500RUM%253A%252CM5TNfEeQw957pM%252C_&usg=___63kS_WfbrRCAqT7JC3gKASowJM%3D&ved=0CCUQyjdqFQoTCNe0tYqy6cgCFYImHgod1goGtg&ei=d_YyVpedMILNeNaVmLAL#imgrc=a-lss_BG500RUM%3A&usg=___63kS_WfbrRCAqT7JC3gKASowJM%3D

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“With the right music, you either forget everything or you remember everything.”

                                                                                            ~UNKNOWN

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

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

                                                                         ~PLATO

These websites show the benefits of music therapy for different problems/populations:

http://www.musictherapy.org/research/factsheets/

http://www.bamt.org/british-association-for-music-therapy-resources/bamt-information-leaflets.htm

Music can change the world ...

Music as living ....

Music should be interesting for listener. Somebody likes a form of music and others like another one.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Even the animals love Music!!! See this article, and watch the video clip, please:

Here’s How Elephants React When You Play Classical Music for Them

While preparing for their upcoming “Magical Nights,” staff members at Belgium’s Pairi Daiza zoo invited some skilled violinists to rehearse in front of a few elephants. The animals really seem to appreciate the performance and they totally sway their trunks in time with the music.

http://time.com/3921977/elephants-classical-music-violin/

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”

                                                                                ~  BILLY JOEL

Yes, Dear  Hazim Hashim Tahir,

Everyone loves music irrespective of culture one belongs to.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

please, see these lovely quotations about  "Music and Power of Healing":

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

See, what "Plato" said about the "Music":

“Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything”