I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Quotations
Music
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
