Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
