Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
