Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Quotations
Music
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
