Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
