Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
