I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
