Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
