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
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
