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
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
