Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
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"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
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
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"
