A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
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"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
