I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
