I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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"
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
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
