Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
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
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
