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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
