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Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The problem with reality is the lack of background music.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Music Teacher's Door: "Out Chopin"

Welcome to Music Town, may I service you?
-- Gina (Empire Records)

Creepy music coming from a cemetery should always be investigated more closely.

"The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being peasants really quickly."
-- Terry Pratchett (Soul Music)

Music soothes the savage beast. ...unless it's polka.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

The music is the magic carpet that the other things take naps on.
-- Tori Amos

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato

"As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."
-- Derek Jarman

"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."
-- David Byrne

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
-- Angela Monet

Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them
-- Paul Murphy

"Life forms... You tiny little life forms... You precious little life forms... Where are you?"
-- Data, singing and playing the control pannel like a musical instrument (Star Trek: Generations)

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

-- George Jean Nathan

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker

Frisbeetarianism: the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
-- Anais Nin

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."
-- Ani DiFranco

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
-- Gustave Flaubert

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"
(High Fidelity)

"I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works."
-- Tori Amos (Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1996)

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare

"There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs."
-- Tori Amos (CD Booklet)