Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
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
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
