Monique > Monique's Quotes

“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
― Stephen Sondheim

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“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, Songbook

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

“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

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

“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

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
― Prince

“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

“Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.”
― Lady Gaga

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu

“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: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“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

“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

“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.

“You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul”
― Christina Perri

“It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
― Billy Wilder

“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

“I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. ”
― Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
― Michael Jackson

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
― Igor Stravinsky

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
― Pablo Casals

“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
― Freddie Mercury