Music Quotes ;)

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine