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"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
