Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Quotations
Music
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
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
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
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
