Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Quotations
Music
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"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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
