Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
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
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
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
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
