If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Quotations
Music
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
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
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
