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
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
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"
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
