Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
