Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
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"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
