Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
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
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
