Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Quotations
Music
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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"
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
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
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"
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
