It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
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"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
