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
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
