Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
