Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
