Music
Quotes - Life is like a beautiful melody
“Pop
music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's
not OK, but you can change it.”
―
Bono, On the Move: A Speech
“There
are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give
rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
There
are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they
produce more hues than can ever been seen.
There
are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them
yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Music
is my higher power”
―
Oliver James
“Music
is an outburst of the soul.”
―
Frederick Delius
“Life
is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
―
Hans Christian Andersen
“When
I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related
to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
―
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
“Life
is but a dream for the dead.”
―
Gerard Way
“When
you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.”
―
Bob Dylan
“Some
guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I
said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.”
―
Cher
“Excuse
me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.”
―
Tom Petty
“Music
is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”
―
John Lennon
“Life
seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
―
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
“Well
my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know,
things I don't care about anymore.”
―
Lady Gaga
“Popular
culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love,
propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news,
and auto-tune is called singing.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“The
pianokeys are black and white
but
they sound like a million colors in your mind”
―
Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
“I'm
telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over
until it becomes true”
―
Lady Gaga
“My
heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by
music when sick and weary.”
―
Martin Luther
“I
still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
―
Morrissey
“If
it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
―
Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
“I
suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss
feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what
good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and
harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what
someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
―
Jess C Scott, New Order
