Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
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"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
