Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) - Mandolin and Guitar, 1924
"A painter paints their pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
"You are the music while it lasts."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"When words leave off, music begins."
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"Music is the poetry of the air."
"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."
"Too many pieces of music finish long after the end."
"A painter paints their pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"You are the music while it lasts."
T. S. Eliot
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo
"When words leave off, music begins."
Heinrich Heine
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
"Music is the poetry of the air."
Jean Paul Richter
"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."
Jean Genet
"Too many pieces of music finish long after the end."
Igor Stravinsky
