A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
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"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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 can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
