A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
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"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
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 is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
