After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Quotations
Music
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
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"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
