In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
