Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Quotations
Music
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
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"
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
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
