Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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
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 for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"