People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Quotations
Music
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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 and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
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"
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
