The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Quotations
Music
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
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"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
