Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
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
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
