Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
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
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"
