Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Quotations
Music
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
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
