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
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
