Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
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
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
