Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
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
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
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"
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
