Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Quotations
Music
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
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"
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
