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
Quotations
Music
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
