Christine > Christine's Quotes

“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

“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

“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

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“The more you love music, the more music you love.”
― Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

“You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.”
― Jacob Hoye, VH1: 100 Greatest Albums

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono

“I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.”
― Jennifer Echols, Major Crush

“When words fail music speaks. ”
― Irena Huang

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan