You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
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
