Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
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
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
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"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
