Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
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"