I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Quotations
Music
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
