How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
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"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
