Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Quotations
Music
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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 not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
