Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Quotations
Music
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
