You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
