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
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
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
