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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
