Born Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

“They think in terms of a sentimental ballad. And that's what terrifies you about them. It isn't their cruelty, it isn't even their shrewdness…

— Jean Rhys

“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world…

— Francis M. Nevins

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

— Georges Bataille

“Some may see the tortured existence of the musician as one where he's practicing like hell and being alone, I see it quite differently.…

— Christian Tetzlaff

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

— David Gilmour

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

If you listen to Tears for Fears, they had great melodies and less rigid cut-and-paste.

— Dr. Luke

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

— Benjamin Britten

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery,…

— Wim Wenders

“The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the…

— Thomas Harris