Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
