Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Quotations
Music
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
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
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
