Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
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"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
