I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
