Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotations
Music
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
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
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
