Music
Quotes - Where words leave off, music begins
“Music
expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be
silent.”
―
Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
“People
worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we
are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody
worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs
about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
―
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“Ah,
music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“There
are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
―
Albert Schweitzer
“It's
no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record
collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to
each other if they met at a party.”
―
Nick Hornby
“We
are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
―
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“If
I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry
and listen to some music at least once every week.”
―
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Where
words leave off, music begins.”
―
Heinrich Heine
“The
only truth is music.”
―
Jack Kerouac
“Music
is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Why
do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing
is beautiful and true.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“A
man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense
of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everything
in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
―
Maya Angelou
“If
you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would
brighten up.”
―
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“Play
it fuckin' loud!”
―
Bob Dylan
“A
quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to
people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it
done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature,
books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
“Music
is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
―
Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
“I
had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy,
never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday,
when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the
fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
―
Lady Gaga
“I
don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand
for God's side.”
―
Bob Marley
“Everybody
has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch
of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt
with it was I just turned completely to music.”
―
Taylor Swift
