You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
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
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
