Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Quotations
Music
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"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
