Island Music

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

No man is an island,
Entire of itself - John Donne

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take a cruise down to the Virgin's Island. - Archie Bunker

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

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

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all. - Christopher Columbus

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver