The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
