Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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"
