Mahler People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. These too seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities. When we separate music from life we get art.
Music needs air, sunlight, and liberty to be alive.
It is only then that it will impart to us surprising secrets. If music be the food of love, play on. The music in my heart I bore long after in was heard no more. Wordsworth Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life. Yet there is one thing the world with all its rottenness cannot take from us, and that is the deep abiding joy and consolation perpetuated in great music.