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
Quotations
Music
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"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
