There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Quotations
Music
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
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
