Air Quote by Anonymous

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens…

— Anonymous

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking…

— Hildegard of Bingen

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and…

— Charles Dickens

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely…

— Alan Hollinghurst

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

— Jodi Picoult

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern

“It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own…

— Erik Tomblin

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Anonymous

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think…

— David Antin

“The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to…

— Galt Niederhoffer