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"
Quotations
Music
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
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
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
