Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Quotations
Music
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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"
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"
