Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
