Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
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
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
