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, 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
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
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"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
