A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
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"
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
