Soundtrack Quotes

“Society, you're a crazy breed.”
― Eddie Vedder

“The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me” played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything to do with the images the song was played over but it was “haunting”, it was “moody”, it was “summing things up”, it gave the footage an “emotional resonance” that I guess we were incapable of capturing ourselves. At first my feelings were basically so what? But then I suggested other music: “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, but I was told that the rights were sky-high and that the song was “too ominous” for this sequence; Nada Surf’s “Popular” had “too many minor chords”, it didn’t fit the “mood of the piece,” it was – again – “too ominous.” When I told them I seriously did not think things could get any more fucking ominous than they already were, I was told, “Things get very much more ominous, Victor,” and then I was left alone.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“The movies, I thought, have got the soundtrack to war all wrong. War isn't rock 'n' roll. It's got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix or Richard Wagner. War is nursery rhymes and early Madonna tracks. War is the music from your childhood. Because war, when it's not making you kill or be killed, turns you into an infant. For the past eight days, I'd been living like a five-year-old — a nonexistence of daytime naps, mushy food, and lavatory breaks. My adult life was back in Los Angeles with my dirty dishes and credit card bills.”
― Chris Ayres, War Reporting for Cowards

“There are some who relish the quiet life. Free of the frantic and discord. I used to be one of them; until my life got loud and dramatic, down right unbearable at moments.
And now I love the volumes of my life. The adagio of my heart’s beating or the metronome of the rainfall. How can one expect to live without the welcome of the bird’s chirp in the morning or the night’s vehement winds pounding our window pane?
The sound of joy, heartbreak, ecstasy. It is all for the fine tuning of our soul. We learn to calibrate the sounds of life. No more sensitivity, but making it all music. Go ahead, appreciate the soundtrack of your life. It makes for good dancing too.”
― Emmanuella Raphaelle

“....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes”
― Plato , The Republic

“Music is not my life. My life is music.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger a blast of synthesizers.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“Kool and the Gang’s 'Celebration' wasn’t the soundtrack for my frame of mind.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.”
― Ibi Kaslik, The Angel Riots

“How strange it was that the music people favored defined them in so many ways—what they liked, what they rejected, what stuck with them from their school years, what they kept, what they burned into memory, what they let go. How was it that what they heard in a single decade—for most, their second on the planet—encoded a set of remembrances that stayed with them forever? It was simply commercial output, a business after all, nothing more than that—song factories a few years removed from Tin Pan Alley. It wasn’t Beethoven or Mozart, but it was glue—happy and sad, lived and imagined, the soundtrack of youth became the soundtrack of peoples’ lives.”
― Ken Goldstein, From Nothing

“I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think

“I am glad I have never experienced writer's block. Once I start, I can't stop. I won't even try to start, until I am motivated enough. Music always helps. I have a soundtrack for every book I've written. At least, one song per chapter.”
― Jason Medina

“Would they see through my artificial cool and realize that 50 percent of the songs I'd chosen had come from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack?”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“And when they let you down (it's another day of)
You'll get up off the ground (it's another day of)
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun”
― Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

“[The ballade of puppets: In a new world, gods will descend]

The night bird calls out in sadness.

When I turn to look, the flowers had all fallen away
It was as if all comfort had vanished from the world

As the gods leave to gather in the new world,
Day breaks, and the night bird calls out.

The blossoms beseech the gods.
"Even though in this world we may know grief and suffering"
"Our dreams shall never die"

"Even though in this world we may know grief and suffering"
"Our dreams shall never die," and they fall from the branch in anger”
― Kenji Kawai

“Like a catchy song stuck in your head, your thoughts shape your reality. What you read, repeat, and focus on becomes the soundtrack of your identity and future—choose your playlist wisely.”
― Farshad Asl