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, 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
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
