Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
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"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett