In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
