It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
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"
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
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
