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
Quotations
Music
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
