How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
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"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
