Yoko Ono Quotes

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

All that really moves me is music.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?

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

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.

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.

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

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Music is a universal language.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.