What is Music?

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." - Jules Combarieu

"Music is organized sound."  ~Artdrum.com

Music is patterns of sound and silence."  ~Artdrum.com 

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." ~Plato

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time." ~W.H. Auden

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below." ~ Joseph Addison ~   

"Music is the arithmetic of sounds
as optics is the geometry of light." ~ Claude Debussy

"Music is the prophecy of what life is to be;
the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing." ~ Lydia M. Child

"Music is a universal language.  Where speech fails, then music begins.  It is the natural medium for the expression of our emotions - the art that expresses in tones our feelings which are too strong and deep to be expressed in words." ~ Charles W. Landon

"Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music." ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff  

"Music is the language of the soul." - Unknown

"Rhythm is the soul of life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm. Every thing and every human action revolves in
rhythm." ~ Baba Olatunji

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.” ~ Baba Olatunji 

Lessons

Essays and Articles - Educational and health benefits of music

"Music is the language of the Soul" - Rajgopal Nidamboor's article

Drum Lessons

Music Quotes

Rhythms

Instruments