Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
