What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. Nick Hornby
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Frank Zappa
Music is. .. A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Philosophy is the highest music.
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Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Plato
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
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Noah Levine
More Quotes By Nick Hornby
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign,...
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
