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
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
