Joseph Campbell Quotes

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

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.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

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

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Music is my heart.

I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

The power of music is real.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Music is the perfect type of art.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

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.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

the one universal form of art is music.