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 is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
