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
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 is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
