Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Music
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
