Quotes tagged ‘Music’

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“Your favorite song on replay.”

“Summer [Tom is listening to headphones in an elevator with Summer. She notices the music]: 'I love the Smiths.' Tom: 'Sorry? Summer: 'I said I love the Smiths.' [They stare at each other for a moment] 'You... You have good taste in music.' Tom [Repeating after her]: 'You... like the Smiths?' Summer…”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Summer, Tom, amazon.com

“If I were a rock star, I’d have Taylor Swifted him and written one of those anthemic I don’t love you anymore songs.”

— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com

“Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I a…”

— Harper Lee, amazon.com

“Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”

— Leigh Hunt, books.google.com

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

— Confucius, books.google.com

“Music's the medicine of the mind.”

— Anaïs Nin, books.google.com

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Johann Paul Richter, books.google.com

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, books.google.com

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Berthold Auerbach, books.google.com

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine, books.google.com

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if…”

— Hunter S. Thompson, books.google.com

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”

— Johnny Depp, books.google.com

“Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.”

— Estelle Laure, books.google.com

“Music is like poetry. It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”

— Deborah Meyler, books.google.com

“A man who hates music can't be trusted.”

— George R.R. Martin, books.google.com

“Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.”

— J. K. Rowling, books.google.com

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.”

— Don Campbell, books.google.com

“Music fathoms the sky.”

— Charles Baudelaire, books.google.com

“Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, books.google.com