Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Quotations
Music
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
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
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
