Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
