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 touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
