Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Quotations
Music
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
