Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
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 gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
