I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Quotations
Music
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
