Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Quotations
Music
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
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"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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
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
