Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
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"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
