Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Music
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
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"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
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 moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
