Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
