Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Quotations
Music
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
