Music - Quotes
Music embodies feeling without forcing it - as it is forced in its other manifestations, in most arts and especially in the art of words - to contend and combine with thought.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
The Only Proff he needed
for the existence of God
was music
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Religion, like love and music, is natural. But so are smoking, war, and death.