How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
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"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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"
