Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Music
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
