Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
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"
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"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
