After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
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"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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 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"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
