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
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
