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
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
