It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
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
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
