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
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
