Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Quotations
Music
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
