Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
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"
