Music(25)

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

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
W. H. Auden

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

"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
Robert Browning

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."
Aaron Copland

"You are the music while the music lasts."
T. S. Eliot

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
Bryan Ferry

"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."
Bryan Ferry

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Kin Hubbard