If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Quotations
Music
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
