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
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
