Compassion Quote by Gena Showalter

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing…

— Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever…

— Carson McCullers

I got No Doubt on cassette, 'Tragic Kingdom.' And I just remember being so psyched about all those songs and, like, the songwriting and…

— Teddy Geiger

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

— Carson McCullers

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

— Tom Petty

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

— Ann Patchett

“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds,…

— Megan Lindholm

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity.…

— Sarah Vaughan

“When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they…

— Brian Andreas

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer…

— Louisa May Alcott

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

— Terry Pratchett