Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
