In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
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 is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
