A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Quotations
Music
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
