Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
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
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
