How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
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"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
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
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
