Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
