Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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