I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Quotations
Music
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
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
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
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"
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 is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
