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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
