I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
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"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
