Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quotations
Music
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
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, 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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
