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
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
