Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Music
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
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"
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"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
