Taylor Swift Quotes

Music is the universal language.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

You get to tell your story through your music if you choose to.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words