A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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 produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
