Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Quotations
Music
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
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"
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
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
