“Music is the language of the sound that composes every single emotion.”

Read from his musical diaries while speaking at St. Vladimir’s Seminary https://vimeo.com/221011528/

Source: According to the Rolling Stones

An Open Letter To Miles Davis (1955)
Context: I think my own way. I don't think like you and my music isn't meant just for the patting of feet and going down backs. When and if I feel gay and carefree, I write or play that way. When I feel angry I write or play that way — or when I'm happy, or depressed, even.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever. Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it's about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It's angry, yet it's real because it knows it's angry.

Isaac Goldberg Tin Pan Alley (New York: John Day, 1930) p. viii.

Dictionary of Musical Terms (1475)

as quoted in The Sound of Poetry / The poetry of Sound, ed. Marjorie Perloff & Craig Dworkin; University of Chicago Press, 2009, p. 310, note 22
a critic on the sound-poetry of Dadaist Hugo Ball

Original: Ogni emozione è unica, così come è affascinante il suono della consolle quando diventa donna.
Source: prevale.net

Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); SILENCE; lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, CREDO/3
1930s

On the Socialist Future of Humanity, 1981