Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
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"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
