Music Quotes - Page 7

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.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

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.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...

I've got a theor-

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots-?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!

...or maybe midgets...

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

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.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.