Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
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"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
