Music
Quotes - Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life
“Most
people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
―
Benjamin Disraeli
“I
believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some
cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”
―
Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
“This
is the strangest life I have ever known.”
―
Jim Morrison
“Three
films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to
make me happy to the day I die.”
―
François Truffaut
“There
is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
―
John Keats
“Wish
You Were Here
So,
so you think you can tell
Heaven
from Hell,
Blue
skys from pain.
Can
you tell a green field
From
a cold steel rail?
A
smile from a veil?
Do
you think you can tell?
And
did they get you to trade
Your
heros for ghosts?
Hot
ashes for trees?
Hot
air for a cool breeze?
Cold
comfort for change?
And
did you exchange
A
walk on part in the war
For
a lead role in a cage?
How
I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're
just two lost souls
Swimming
in a fish bowl,
Year
after year,
Running
over the same old ground.
What
have we found?
The
same old fears.
Wish
you were here.”
―
Roger Waters
“So,
you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
―
Tori Amos
“Girl
listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.
Girl
slips on headphones. World gone.”
―
Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
“Music
is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
―
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
“Am
I the reason you breathe
Or
am I the reason you cry?”
―
Saliva
“Rock
'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and
should piss people off”
―
Gerard Way
“A
gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
―
Mark Twain
“Floating,
falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the
dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the
night.”
―
Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
“Shoot
for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
―
Kanye West
“To
me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.”
―
Morrissey
“Tried
living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even
began.”
―
Morrissey
“Our
lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite
songs were unwritten.”
―
Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“I
refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that
Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that
Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
―
Patti Smith
“Music
brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless
wintering.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“I
just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…”
―
Charlotte Eriksson
“If
we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood,
because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this
new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense
words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
“Music
is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're
southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to
AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a
tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal
ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat
salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your
eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your
dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio
commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo
sale?”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“Have
you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel
like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now
I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a
bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to
get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock
control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have,
right by the exit, just next to the blues.”
―
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
