Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
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 love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
