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"
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
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"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
