I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
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, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
