I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
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
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
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
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
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 touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
