Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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 we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
