Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
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"
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
