Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
