Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
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, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
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 touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
