Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Quotations
Music
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
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"
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
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"
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
