“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
— Victor Hugo

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“When you get to readin’ about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.”

—Merle Haggard