Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
