Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
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 the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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"
