Music Can Be
- Sep 6, 2023
- 20 min read
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Art
Love
A joy
A sea
Sound
A balm
Poetry
Rhythm
Feeling
Harmony
Meaning
Therapy
A refuge
A solace
Language
Medicine
Our life
Sunshine
A journey
A miracle
A pastime
A release
A science
Decisions
Ennobling
Inaudible
Moral law
A pleasure
Part of us
What it is
A companion
A heartbeat
A moral law
A motivator
A must have
A necessity
A noble art
A sanctuary
A sensation
A testimony
An attitude
An inspirer
Consolation
God's voice
Like poetry
Like prayer
Love itself
Nourishment
Sheer sound
A discipline
An aural art
Audible time
Dream making
Mathematical
Shared songs
So important
Sonorous air
Soul soother
A mood master
A whole oasis
About thought
An influencer
Communication
Freedom space
Improvisation
Like medicine
Like sunshine
Made of notes
A heart uniter
A people mover
A social thing
A story sharer
An abstraction
Emotion evoker
Mind comforter
Very important
What unites us
A healing force
A kind of quiet
A lifting force
A mighty weapon
A peace bringer
A strange thing
About listening
All about ideas
Audible feeling
From everywhere
Intricate forms
Language itself
Organised sound
Poetry in sound
Powerful poetry
What teaches us
A beautiful song
A bridge creator
A great blessing
A place to go to
A pleasant noise
A two-way street
A unifying force
Geometry in time
God's gift to us
Harmony of sound
Like a telescope
Like an open sky
Never stationary
Poetry in motion
Powered by ideas
Security blanket
Significant form
Sweet influencer
The art of sound
The great uniter
What reaches out
A beautiful thing
A great energizer
About imagination
Air moving around
All about harmony
Always about love
An aural ornament
Audible wallpaper
Food to the heart
Like a good tonic
Like a microscope
Resonance creator
Sound and silence
The heart of life
A friend of theme
A continuing thing
A people connector
A security blanket
A strife abolisher
A sublime instinct
A thinking changer
A tool for healing
Higher mathematics
Lyrical literature
Part of human life
Past meets present
Sound with purpose
The elixir of life
The eye of the ear
A beautiful artform
A comforting elixir
A thing of the soul
An incredible force
Auditory cheesecake
Cheerful throughout
Far-fetched to some
Integral to harmony
Interior decoration
Liquid architecture
The breath of being
The child of prayer
The colour of sound
The colour of sound
The great connector
The language of all
The pen of the soul
The poetry of sound
Where we see heaven
A great communicator
A great healing balm
A heartbeat mimicker
A place we can go to
A universal language
Beautiful and simple
Eternally mysterious
Felt, not just heard
Healing and soothing
How we decorate time
Like a small rowboat
Mathematics, balance
Metaphysical comfort
The essence of order
The harmony of notes
The language of love
The one communal art
The sister of poetry
The soul of language
The speech of angels
The ultimate teacher
What our heart is in
What tells our story
A form of remembering
A friend of narrative
A harmonic connection
A heart string puller
A language of emotion
A powerful instrument
A reservoir of sounds
About transporting us
Always a conversation
An emotional language
Pure and simple sound
So pure and beautiful
The action of hearing
The geometry of light
The poetry of the air
Too precise for words
What life sounds like
What life sounds like
What says how we feel
A big gift opportunity
A contribution to life
A feeling, not logical
A painting we can hear
A place to take refuge
An ethereal connection
Emotional tranquilizer
Great pleasure of life
Like painting in sound
Love looking for words
Noise that makes sense
Our happiness, our joy
Structure out of chaos
Such a beautiful thing
The daughter of sorrow
The great communicator
The language of heaven
The language of memory
The soundtrack to life
The universal language
Unconscious arithmetic
A gesture of friendship
A science, in many ways
An emotion communicator
An emotional experience
An outburst of the soul
Another way of thinking
Discipline for the mind
For sharing with people
Poetry with personality
Sound that gives relief
The language of feeling
The perfect type of art
The true breath of life
A means of communication
A very profound language
An extension of the soul
Intangible and ephemeral
Love in search of a word
Some kind of explanation
The language of the soul
The medicine of the mind
The pathway to the heart
The poor man's Parnassus
The shorthand of emotion
The strength of the soul
Unobstructed by thoughts
What feelings sound like
Without love, mere noise
A link between God and us
A simulation of something
A speaker when words fail
A wonderful teaching tool
Full of wonderful content
Listening to a human mind
Love in search of a voice
More emotional than prose
Not a show of pompousness
The companion of religion
The gladness of the world
The language of languages
The language of the heart
The original melody of us
The sound of the universe
A chance to tell the truth
A language everybody knows
A reflection of who we are
About emotion and attitude
Both expressive and causal
How we hear ourselves live
In the ear of the beholder
Made for the inexpressible
The flowering of character
The language of the spirit
The rejoicing of the heart
What sets us free to dream
What speaks from our heart
Without spirit, just notes
A peaceful breeze for minds
A resource, not a commodity
A sort of unifier of people
Art, and important and rare
Elaborate patterns of sound
Feelings in search of words
Way to communicate emotions
What brings us all together
A clue to the puzzle of life
An experience, not a science
An indirect force for change
Feeling communicating itself
One of the highest art forms
The crystallization of sound
The emotional life of people
The kindest prayer for souls
There for when words fail us
What never leaves the memory
What our feelings sound like
A great treasure in the world
A kind of harmonious language
An uplifting, spiritual thing
Like a dream that we can hear
More expressive than dialogue
Partaker of the human tragedy
Proof of the existence of God
Something we hear in our head
The fragrance of the universe
The human treatment of sounds
The language spoken by angels
The most abstract of the arts
The silence between the notes
A beautiful thing to listen to
A great way to forget troubles
A second language to the heart
About bringing light to others
An echo of the invisible world
An important tool for learning
Expression of harmony in sound
For the ears, not for the eyes
In the space between the notes
Like a huge release of tension
More revolutionary than poetry
One of the great heart openers
The harmonization of opposites
The one art we all have inside
The tonal reflection of beauty
What elevates and liberates us
A defining element of character
A fair and glorious gift of God
A friend, no matter where we go
A healing force of the universe
A means of rapid transportation
Essential to our community life
Something we both hear and feel
The art of thinking with sounds
The medicine of a troubled mind
The most beautiful thing of all
The musical mirror of the world
A type of antidote for something
About giving and about searching
About textures as well as melody
Evidence of a souls will to live
In the silence between the notes
Motivated by energy and feelings
Such a joy, just an absolute joy
The framework around the silence
The harmonious voice of creation
The only art that actually lives
The softest cushion in the world
The sweetest language for hearts
The ultimate mother of languages
What escapes when a heart breaks
What imprints itself on the soul
A celebration that we own nothing
A major gift that keeps on giving
A potent instrument for education
A wonderful sail for imaginations
An expression of what's inside us
Energy, mood, atmosphere, feeling
Feeling, life, motion and emotion
Spontaneous, impulsive expression
The answer to the mystery of life
The far-off peal of bells at dusk
The most abstract of all the arts
The most profound of all the arts
The universal language of mankind
To the mind as air is to the body
Very, very precise, very rigorous
What feeling feels like over time
What feelings sound like out loud
What helps us get over heartbreak
A great release, a great enjoyment
A great way to forget our troubles
A language that speaks to emotions
A master of order and good manners
A means of spreading the good word
A place for the intensely personal
A reflection of what we go through
A universal language which unifies
One of the greatest gifts God gave
One of the things that makes sense
Something that makes us feel whole
The arithmetic of sounds as optics
The medicine of the breaking heart
The medicine of the breaking heart
The melody whose text is the world
The purest thing there is on earth
The tonal analogue of emotive life
A powerful tool to galvanize people
A treasure and a love and a delight
A way for someone to say I love you
An experience to be taken by itself
Consolation for a despairing person
A fantastic peacekeeper of the world
A performance needing of an audience
An art that goes well beyond science
Given of God to further his purposes
One of the very few human universals
The conciliation of warring elements
The coordination between us and time
The expression of the will of nature
The product of feeling and knowledge
The soundtrack to good and bad times
Without range limit, forever growing
A healing thing, no matter who we are
A thing from the heart, from the soul
A way of getting away from everything
About creating something from nothing
An essential part of everything we do
An outlet for the spirit and emotions
How we get from one note to the other
Moonlight in the gloomy night of life
Something that helps the soul survive
The easiest means in which to express
The emotions that words can’t express
The only art of Heaven given to earth
A beautiful thing happening through us
A cup which holds the sound of silence
An elevator and inspirer of the spirit
Defined as much by silence as by sound
Proof that beauty is deeper than looks
Real - something we can touch and feel
Sweet and healing medicine of troubles
The noise that surrounds the stillness
To the soul what words are to the mind
Transformative, utterly transformative
Within our heart, our soul, our spirit
A required fundamental of human emotion
A shell that murmurs of the eternal sea
A thread making a life into a coherency
A weapon in the war against unhappiness
An art that expresses the inexpressible
The art most nigh to tears and memories
The greatest communication in the world
The language of the heart without words
The last true voice of the human spirit
The sound that fills the cup of silence
The only art of earth we take to Heaven
A domain in which we realise the present
A way of getting in touch with stillness
Not just notes fixed on a piece of paper
Not simply an orchestration of something
One of the most essential things in life
Something that explains our lives for us
Sounds that unveil the layers of silence
The best means we have of digesting time
Using sound to organize emotions in time
What takes silence and brings it to life
Wild sounds civilized into time and tune
A quantifiable, profound healing modality
Art which evokes nostalgia for the future
In the air between us, waiting to be sung
Like a dictionary that has a lot of words
The art of sounds in the movement of time
What clears our souls and lifts them high
Where to learn things worthwhile to learn
A language which languages fail to express
A powerful light for the shadows of sorrow
A relaxation from more serious occupations
All around us, all we have to do is listen
Memories we might have otherwise forgotten
One of the things that help us get through
Silence, which in dreaming begins to sound
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love
The language of love, nature, and eternity
The most abstract and physical of the arts
The refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness
The story of what God has done in our life
What washes away the dust of everyday life
What’s between the notes, not in the notes
A thing put out there in the form of a song
An ornament, when learnt with understanding
Inspirational - making us want to be better
Soothing and stimulating, good for thinking
The sound of the universal laws promulgated
The universal language of kindness and love
The way our memories sing to us across time
What expresses the deepest thoughts of life
A fundamental way of expressing our humanity
A thing that will give and give and not take
A vibration in the brain rather than the ear
Careful attention paid to ongoing experience
Like a beautiful mosaic God has put together
Perpetual - only the hearing is intermittent
The social act of communication among people
Written in the heart's blood of the composer
An art form that doesn't need to be explained
Infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful
The most physically inspiring of all the arts
What appeals to the ears and touches our soul
Without barriers of caste, creed, or language
Xxthe art of the prophets and the gift of God
A return to the seasons of the heart long gone
Here to let us forget the daily chores of life
Natural law as related to the sense of hearing
The balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star
The invisible world made visible through sound
A divine gift, to be devoted to divine purposes
A form of art that uses sound organised in time
A lifter of the heart and buoyer of our spirits
A way to learn about discipline and cooperation
An art that can calm the agitations of the soul
Something autonomous and much richer than words
The surest way of reaching someone else's heart
A means of spreading positivity and productivity
A missionary effort to colonize earth for heaven
A reflection of the inner beauty of the universe
About communication, creativity, and cooperation
Oceanic - there's no end to what we can discover
The language of some other state, born of memory
What helps us express what we really want to say
A sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy
A strange bird singing the songs of another shore
About expressing things we can't in everyday life
One of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God
The art of all the invisible things that are real
A light that can reach anywhere and touch anything
All about civilization, about something worthwhile
In the silence between the notes, not in the notes
Like an emotional painting, with sounds as colours
The application of sounds to the canvas of silence
The most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts
What we notice when it's no longer in our presence
A bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words
A friend to us when we are lonely, when we are blue
A reflection of what's going on in hearts and minds
A wave - going out and coming back and bouncing off
A way to dream together and go to another dimension
One of those things that brings great joy to people
Part of a quest to find new ways of telling stories
Something that lifts the spirits and makes us happy
Something we can take into our heart and never lose
The great cheer-up in the language of all countries
What begins where the possibilities of language end
A calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in summer
A way to not forget, but to just escape for a moment
A wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear
Completely untranslatable into words, into any words
In a sense serene - certain of the values it asserts
Producing of a kind of pleasure we cannot do without
Releaser of us from the tyranny of conscious thought
A multiplier of the beauty of life and all its values
A common space where we search for beauty and share it
A language that doesn’t speak in words but in emotions
A wonderful ingredient that helps us understand better
About the journey, about love and the human experience
Something to be performed, felt, listened to, progress
The balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star
What has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls
A continuation of life, not something separated from it
A way to rearrange the world according to our own hopes
An expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life
As much about personal expression as listening pleasure
The soundtrack to life, playing the melody of our being
The universal language, bringing people closer together
A means we have to work on the dream of a peaceful world
A world within itself, with a language we all understand
Constitutive of who we are, not ornamental or decorative
Here to provide us with something to face the world with
The tool to express life and all that makes a difference
What gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose
A secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul
The literature of the heart, commencing where speech ends
The voice of all sorrow, all joy - needing no translation
A calculation which the soul makes unconsciously in secret
A divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
A tool to help connect people with God and to help inspire
About shutting out the tensions of life, putting them away
Edifying - from time to time it sets the soul in operation
The language of the heart - making our soul dance with joy
What can break down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers
What can define a life, change a life, or even save a life
What can organize reality atmosphere like a law of physics
The space between the notes as much as the notes themselves
The truth that everyone does listen, feel, believe and love
What awakes from us when we are reminded by the instruments
A vehicle that propels us toward a place we might call grace
The next necessity of life after food, air, water and warmth
The thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another
What can open our mind, strengthen and possibly even cure us
What can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world
Here to teach us about life, not to make us forget about life
Something that even when we close our eyes gets into our body
Songs of praise to God to help sanctify and cleanse our souls
The fourth great material want after food clothes and shelter
The highest of the arts, beginning where the others leave off
The voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace
Enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music
For the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit
The effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work
What can put the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness
What comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart
Something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart
The electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents
The most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable
The most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity
What we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent
One of the most magnificent and delightful gifts God has given us
The electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents
The only corporeal introduction to the superior world of knowledge
A place we can lose ourselves in thoughts, memories and intricacies
A universal language which reaches the heart and sympathetic nerves
What can make us milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable
A conversation between the musician and their tools and technologies
Mathematics - the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears
All form and content, elevating and ennobling everything it expresses
The domain of the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious
The essence of order, leading to all that is good, true and beautiful
The written or printed signs representing vocal or instrumental sound
An art that rises far above what words can mean or intelligence define
One of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world
Sweet melodies that mellow the soul and help prepare us for the gospel
The mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit
What can express the highest and deepest longings, when language fails
A universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible
An extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion, very powerful emotions
Maths, and maths is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect
The movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue
The reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound
A communication more powerful than words, more immediate, more efficient
Constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it
The unspoken language that conveys feelings more accurately than talking
A succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose
A true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living
A cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe
A powerful transformer of emotions and experiences into something tangible
A form of entertainment that puts sounds together in a way that people like
A hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets
One of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other
The shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world
The shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world
To liberate in the soul those feelings which we keep locked up in the heart
Vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
Like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss
Medicine to the weary adult, worn with business, work, and worriment of mind
The spiritual expression of who we are - our faith, our knowledge, our being
The universal language that allows all people to communicate with each other
What can bring relief to the aches and stressful situations that life brings
God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe
A thing that changes our lives, that has the capacity to make our lives better
The most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness
The soundtrack of our long and often painful march toward a more perfect union
A language by whose means messages are elaborated, to be understood by the many
A mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through
Here to enrich our life and make us aware of things in a slightly different way
Pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it
The sunshine, the climate of the soul, flooding the heart with a perfect summer
A powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change our entire mood
About memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy
An art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness
A hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting
That which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty
What can allow us to be isolated and alone while telling us that we are not alone
A nice friend to have around, whether it is just for ourselves or for other people
Expressive of that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
So naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired
An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul
Intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions
Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common
The only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication
Where we can crawl into the space between the notes and curl our back to loneliness
The most abstract, the most perfect, the purest and the most sensual of all the arts
A thing that stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter
An exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of our mental faculties
One way to tell the story of life, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share
An instrument – it can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking
The universal language - when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls
Gathering - taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core
What can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond colour straight to the mind and heart
Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, directly conveyed
The only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable
Something that takes us to a world which is very different from the world of negative emotions
The expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes
A means of giving form to our feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world
A powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change our entire mood, like sunshine
The only means whereby we feel sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love in their universality
An extraordinary locksmith - so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes
The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which which we cannot comprehend
The inarticulate speech of the heart which cannot be compressed into words because it is infinite
A powerful means and a subtle language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods
The sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition
A mysterious language whose marvellous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life
Like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees
More like water than a rhinoceros - it doesn't charge madly down one path but runs away in every direction
What we listen to with our body and it is our body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied
The art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion
A precious gift that has been bestowed on us alone to remind us that we are created to praise and magnify the Lord
Alone among all the languages uniting the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable
The only assured tone - there are in it such strains as far surpass any man's faith in the loftiness of his destiny
Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion
A language that lives in the spiritual realms - we can hear, notate and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands
The art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content
What gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything
What gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything
The purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colours in every variety of shading and nuance
The art which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring
Given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time
An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and colour
So elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which no one can explain
The only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion, to romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm
A vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where it can lose its anger and become compassion again
Either the first or one of the principal among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, and a gift of God deputed for that purpose
The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
One element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man
Tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both
A highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey
One of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy, for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts
Made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here
Given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly conscious one, which alone insures vitality and durability
The product of feeling and knowledge - it requires from its disciples, composers and performers, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection
Though so fleeting, recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not
A mixed mathematical science that concerns the origins, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honoured and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow