Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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 the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
