The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Quotations
Music
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
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"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
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
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
