Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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 wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
