In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
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
