I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
