Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Quotations
Music
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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 is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
