"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Music | 4 bookmarks

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Work | 2 bookmarks

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van | Music | 5 bookmarks

"Architecture is petrified music."

Schelling, Felix E. | Architecture | 1 bookmarks

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van | Music | 10 bookmarks

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

Beethoven, Ludwig Van | Arts and Artists | 2 bookmarks

"Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad."

Zappa, Frank | Stardom | 4 bookmarks