When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Quotations
Music
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
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 is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
