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
Quotations
Music
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
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 is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
