It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
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 does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
