John Erskine Quotes

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

Love is music, and music is home.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Where words fail, music speaks.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

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

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

When words leave off, music begins.

Music truly is the universal language.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.