Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
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
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
