Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
