Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
