Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
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"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
