Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
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 the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
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
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
