Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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 and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
