A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
