Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Music
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
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
