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"
Quotations
Music
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
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 literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
