Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
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"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
