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
Quotations
Music
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
