The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
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
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
