Quotes by British Authors - Page 588

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
Rebecca West
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.
Morrissey
You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.
Morrissey
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.
Nick Hornby
Follow through.Make your dreams come true.Don't give up the fight.You will be alright.Cause there's no one like you in the universe
Muse
I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break the heart, full of tragic dissonance and deferred hope, and yet somewhere beneath it all was a piercing refrain of glory, glory, glory. And I sensed that not only the grand movements of the cosmos, but everything that had happened in my life, was a part of that song. Even the hurts that seemed most senseless, the mistakes I would have done anything to erase--nothing could make those things good, but good could still come out of them all the same, and in the end the oratorio would be no less beautiful for it.
R.J. Anderson
There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die.
Morrissey
I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.
Morrissey
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
Annie Lennox
The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.
Elvis Costello
We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
Roger Waters
All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
Roger Waters
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Morrissey
It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead
Nick Hornby
Anything can become music if listened to long enough
Jeff Noon
You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.
Morrissey
These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love.
Morrissey
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.
Nick Hornby
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.
Nick Hornby
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.
Eric Clapton
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
Mary Stewart
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Mina Loy
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
Morrissey
Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life
Morrissey
Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.
Morrissey
Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
Morrissey
Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse
You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
Morrissey
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
Mark E. Smith
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
Ringo Starr
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
Morrissey
I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
Morrissey
music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.
T.S Eliot
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
Charlotte Brontë
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
David Byrne
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
Thomas Hardy
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.
Stephen Fry
I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
Morrissey
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
Morrissey
It's so shameful of me: I like you.
Morrissey
Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.
Morrissey
I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.
Morrissey
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
Morrissey
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
The Beatles
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.
C.S. Lewis
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly
George Harrison
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
Helen Thompson
If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.
Pete Doherty
The heart has a heart of its own.
Morrissey
I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.
Morrissey
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
Morrissey
The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.
Morrissey
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
Morrissey
Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.
Alex Gaskarth
Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
Roger Waters
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
Morrissey
I'd love to...but only with you.
Morrissey