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
Quotations
Music
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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
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
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
