Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
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 not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
