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 is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
