Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
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
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
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"
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
