Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon