Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

The line uses a stark metaphor—life as a “journey through a desert”—to argue that music is not a luxury but a sustaining element of human experience. A desert suggests monotony, deprivation, and emotional thirst; music, by contrast, implies nourishment, companionship, and orientation (a way to mark time and meaning). Read this way, the quote elevates art to a basic human need: without it, existence becomes barren and exhausting, even if one can technically survive. The phrasing also hints at music’s role in memory and community, turning an otherwise isolating passage through life into something inhabited and bearable.