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.
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
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"
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld