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" 

"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