Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Quotations
Music
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
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"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
