Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Music
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
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"
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
