A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
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"
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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
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"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
