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
Quotations
Music
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
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"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
