“Wallace Hartley: “I’ve always felt that, when men are called to face death suddenly, music is are more effective in cheering them on than all the firearms in creation.””

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

“One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.”

“Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”

“When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.”

“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”

“Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.”