Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
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"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
