I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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.
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
