Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Quotations
Music
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
