Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Quotations
Music
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
