Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
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"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
