Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
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"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
