Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Quotations
Music
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
