I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
