A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
