Brilliant Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb…

— Max Beckmann

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

— Jon Foreman

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

— John Barrow

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

— Franz Werfel

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our…

— Alexander Pope

There's that really scary moment when you premiere music that no one's heard. It's the best and the worst moment. You're so scared. If…

— Christian Karlsson

If I were to die a slow death, I'd want music to be the cause

— Anonymous

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The…

— Benjamin Britten

As the music dies

— Seether

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

— Jon Brion

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in…

— John Luther Adams