A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
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
