The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
