Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
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
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
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
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
