Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen