You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
