You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
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 is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
