“I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.”
― Taylor Swift
“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”
― Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied
“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 ...”
― Nick Hornby
“Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
― Tupac Shakur
“So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]”
― Taylor Swift
“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, Family Happiness
“Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.”
― Tom Petty
“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits
“I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”
― Lady Gaga
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“Who are you to judge the life i live
i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.
but before you start pointing fingers
make sure your hands are clean.”
― Jimi Hendrix
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
And I'm in love with all of those vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me”
― Gerard Way
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― John Keats
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp
“When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....”
― Paul McCartney
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius
“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
“You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.”
― Kelly White
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
― George Carlin
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney
“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music At Night: And Other Essays
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“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
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“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 should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato
“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Schweitzer
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
“And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“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
“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld
“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
― Gerard Way
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou
“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
“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits
“You remember when we were sitting there by the water you put your arm around me for the first time you made a rebel of a careless man’ s careful daughter you are the best thing that’s ever been mine”
― Taylor Swift
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
― John Lennon
“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, Real Frank Zappa Book
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell
“The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Piano Play-Along Volume 95
“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
― John Barrowman
“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
“Music is my higher power”
― Oliver James
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“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
“Asleep by the Smiths
Vapour Trail by Ride
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Dear Prudence by the Beatles
Gypsy by Suzanne Vega
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins
Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)
MLK by U2
Blackbird by the Beatles
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
Asleep by the Smiths (again!)
-Charlie's mixtape”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
― Paul McCartney
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
― Nora Roberts
“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”
― John Lennon
“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like "I didn't know that part was so ugly." Or "I better get a professional opinion about that." You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day. . .facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform. . . you perform like your life depended on it----and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.”
― Gerard Way
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan
“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June
“She's not a saint, and she's not what you think
She's an actress, whoa
She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress”
― Taylor Swift
“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
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“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
“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius
“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”
― Jason Mraz
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music
“Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me”
― Emilie Autumn
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing: A Play
“When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.”
― Bob Dylan
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson
“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
“And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.”
― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther
“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”
― Lady Gaga
“Next to music beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
“So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
― Tori Amos
“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”
― Billy Joel
“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say Ave there for me,
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me”
― Frederick Weatherly
“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
“Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry?”
― Saliva
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”
― Paul McCartney
“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey
“I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.”
― Lady Gaga
“...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...”
― The Fray
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
― Prince
“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
“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
“I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski
“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen
“the past is only the future with the lights on.”
― Blink-182, Blink 182
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman
“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa
“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
― Bob Dylan
“I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
“Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.”
― Alex Gaskarth
“Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.”
― Alex Gaskarth
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
“Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.”
― Lady Gaga
“If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so stepped on
You're not the only one
Refusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up”
― Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace
“And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun”
― Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”
― Morrissey
“We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
― Lady Gaga
“Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how people grow up.”
― Morrissey
“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”
― Ani DiFranco
“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
“Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing”
― Led Zeppelin
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.
Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music?
How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”
― Orson Scott Card
“I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.”
― Morrissey
“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
― Gerard Way
“Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“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
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.”
― Steven Morrissey
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
― Frank Zappa
“Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off”
― Gerard Way
“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists”
― Gerard Way
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich
“You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul”
― Christina Perri
“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”
― Morrissey
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
― Plato, Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
― Alanis Morissette
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
― Michael Jackson
“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.”
― Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd the Wall
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
― Billy Wilder
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
― John Cage
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
― Jane Swan
“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
― Lady Gaga
“J'veut ton amour
et je veut ton revange
J'veut ton amour
I don't wanna be friends!”
― Lady Gaga
“If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”
― Theocritus
“Ah, music! A magic far beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“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
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
― Paul McCartney
“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
― John Lennon
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan
“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choir girl Hotel
“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.”
― Taylor Swift
“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”
― Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied
“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 ...”
― Nick Hornby
“Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
― Tupac Shakur
“So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]”
― Taylor Swift
“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, Family Happiness
“Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.”
― Tom Petty
“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits
“I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”
― Lady Gaga
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“Who are you to judge the life i live
i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.
but before you start pointing fingers
make sure your hands are clean.”
― Jimi Hendrix
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
And I'm in love with all of those vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me”
― Gerard Way
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― John Keats
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp
“When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....”
― Paul McCartney
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius
“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
“You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.”
― Kelly White
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
― George Carlin
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney
“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music At Night: And Other Essays
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“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
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“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 should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato
“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Schweitzer
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
“And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“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
“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld
“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
― Gerard Way
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou
“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
“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits
“You remember when we were sitting there by the water you put your arm around me for the first time you made a rebel of a careless man’ s careful daughter you are the best thing that’s ever been mine”
― Taylor Swift
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
― John Lennon
“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, Real Frank Zappa Book
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell
“The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Piano Play-Along Volume 95
“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
― John Barrowman
“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
“Music is my higher power”
― Oliver James
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“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
“Asleep by the Smiths
Vapour Trail by Ride
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Dear Prudence by the Beatles
Gypsy by Suzanne Vega
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins
Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)
MLK by U2
Blackbird by the Beatles
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
Asleep by the Smiths (again!)
-Charlie's mixtape”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
― Paul McCartney
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
― Nora Roberts
“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”
― John Lennon
“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like "I didn't know that part was so ugly." Or "I better get a professional opinion about that." You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day. . .facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform. . . you perform like your life depended on it----and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.”
― Gerard Way
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan
“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June
“She's not a saint, and she's not what you think
She's an actress, whoa
She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress”
― Taylor Swift
“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
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“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
“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius
“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”
― Jason Mraz
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music
“Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me”
― Emilie Autumn
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing: A Play
“When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.”
― Bob Dylan
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson
“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
“And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.”
― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther
“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”
― Lady Gaga
“Next to music beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
“So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
― Tori Amos
“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”
― Billy Joel
“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say Ave there for me,
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me”
― Frederick Weatherly
“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
“Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry?”
― Saliva
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”
― Paul McCartney
“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey
“I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.”
― Lady Gaga
“...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...”
― The Fray
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
― Prince
“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
“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
“I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski
“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen
“the past is only the future with the lights on.”
― Blink-182, Blink 182
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman
“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa
“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
― Bob Dylan
“I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
“Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.”
― Alex Gaskarth
“Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.”
― Alex Gaskarth
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
“Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.”
― Lady Gaga
“If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so stepped on
You're not the only one
Refusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up”
― Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace
“And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun”
― Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”
― Morrissey
“We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
― Lady Gaga
“Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how people grow up.”
― Morrissey
“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”
― Ani DiFranco
“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
“Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing”
― Led Zeppelin
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.
Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music?
How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”
― Orson Scott Card
“I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.”
― Morrissey
“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
― Gerard Way
“Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“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
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.”
― Steven Morrissey
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
― Frank Zappa
“Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off”
― Gerard Way
“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists”
― Gerard Way
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich
“You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul”
― Christina Perri
“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”
― Morrissey
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
― Plato, Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
― Alanis Morissette
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
― Michael Jackson
“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.”
― Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd the Wall
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
― Billy Wilder
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
― John Cage
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
― Jane Swan
“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
― Lady Gaga
“J'veut ton amour
et je veut ton revange
J'veut ton amour
I don't wanna be friends!”
― Lady Gaga
“If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”
― Theocritus
“Ah, music! A magic far beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“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
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
― Paul McCartney
“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
― John Lennon
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan
“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choir girl Hotel
“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp
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