Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
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."
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
