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
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"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
