Trust

But trust me, I cheated
Baby I'm a fake
~ from Teach Me by Kyle Riabko ~

Scared of myself

And when I am speaking
My stomach is leaping
I’m scared of myself
You probably think I’m crazy
~ from Paranoid by Kyle Riabko ~

Short

Life is too short
To live it just for you
~ from Powerless by Nelly Furtado ~

In Terms of Music

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 ~

Effortless

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
~ George Eliot ~

Musical Snobbery

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 ~

Remembrance

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
~ Alexander Smith ~

Inexpressible

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley ~

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~ Victor Hugo ~

Thoughtful Music

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

Order Out Of Chaos

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
~ Yehudi Menuhin ~

Take Refuge

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer ~

I Had Nothing To Do With It

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
~ Joan Baez ~

Communication

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~ Gustav Mahler ~

Simply the Best

Remember, 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 ~

Well, That's One Interpretation

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulgent amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)
~ Glenn Gould ~

Maybe the 21st Will Be Better

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
~ Bing Crosby ~

Self Portrait

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
~ Samuel Butler ~

Instrument

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
~ June Masters Bacher ~

Disabilities Beget Opportunities

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
~ Jim Davis ~

Suit Yourself

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
~ Truman Capote ~

Everything Becomes Music

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
~ Truman Capote ~