How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
