Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
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"
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
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
