A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
