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
Quotations
Music
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
