Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
