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"
Quotations
Music
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
