Quotes & Sayings About Music Saving Your Life

All those people I didn't even know, I couldn't pick them out of a lineup if I had to, but they had worked their whole lives to get the knowledge that ended up saving my life. It was because of them that I was in this magnificent wave of people and music. — Maria Semple

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. — Noah Richler

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. — Marie Windsor

He's writing his name in water," I said. "What's that?" It was the half-regretful term - borrowed from the headstone of John Keats - that Crabtree used to describe his own and others' failure to express a literary gift through any actual writing on paper. Some of them, he said, just told lies; others wove plots out of the gnarls and elf knots of their lives and then followed them through to resolution. That had always been Crabtree's chosen genre - thinking his way into an attractive disaster and then attempting to talk his way out, leaving no record and nothing to show for his efforts but a reckless reputation and a small dossier in the files of the Berkeley and New York City police departments. — Michael Chabon

The course of true anything never does run smooth. — Samuel Butler

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases. — Kieron Gillen

It is not trivial to lie in a report ... At the time I wrote it I actually believed what I wrote to be true, fervently ... Yet, when I wrote it, I also knew it wasn't true. I call this the lie of two minds.
"I" convinced "myself." The I that did the convincing was the one who needed desperately to justify the entire experience, to make it sane and right and okay and approved. Myself was convinced as the moral self, the part of me I would want to be a judge in a legal system. This moral part of us, however, in these extreme situations, is vulnerable to the overwhelming force of that part of us that needs to justify our actions ... With this lie I'd lost myself. Perhaps this too adds to the shame. — Karl Marlantes

We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India. — Narendra Modi

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life. — Mariah Carey

Exploration is a dirty game. — Tahir Shah

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. — Anthony Holden