He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Quotations
Music
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
