Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
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"
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
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"
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
