Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
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"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
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"
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
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
