Today I heard someone on the radio say-
"Music is how we hear feelings. "
I like that.
My favorite quote of that type goes something like: “The visual arts are meant to suspend time, where music is meant to move time forward.” Or something like that. It was better in the original wording.
I’m not very good at this.
A couple of days ago I heard an interview with a violinist who was a student of Jasha Heifetz. He said he told him one time- " practice as if everything depends on it, perform as if it doesn’t matter.
Hmmmmm…
Fave music quotes:
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” - T. Monk
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung” - Voltaire
I thought that was FZ. Or Lester Bangs. Or Elvis Costello.
Someone at C&F used to use this as a signature:
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There’s also a negative side.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
Wow, I always heard Thelonius quoted as source, but check this page!
http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm
Loads of candidates, including Zappa, Costello, Steve Martin, Monk and even Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo!
I’m happy to revise my attribution… just don’t know who to pick! 
Music is God laughing and crying out loud.
I just made that up. No offence intended.
Yeah, I’ve looked for the correct attribution for that quote forever, so I thought I’d poke a little fun.
“If it sounds good, it is good.” – Duke Ellington
“Life’s little highway has its ups and downs
You will laugh and then you will cry
But whenever some bad weather brings you down
Just climb on your music and fly” – Michael Franks
Wow, that I like…
Philo
Yeah…that feelings quote is a good simple summation.
For sure I’ve listened to instrumental passages, and heard/felt them as distinctly as if someone where saying something meaningful verbally. The music may be every bit as clear a message…but try explaining why verbally. It can’t be done.
Music can touch me like nothing else can.
I am loving these quotes!
More, please! 
M