Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
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"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
