A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
