Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
