“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”

“Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing…because music is everything.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician

“Music is like a life without fatigue”

Yosef Hisham Shami

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

Jane Austen book Emma

“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

“Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.”

Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) Novelist, short story writer, teacher

“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss