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
Quotations
Music
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
