Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Quotations
Music
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
