Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
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 fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
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 is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
