Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
