People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
