Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
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 defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
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
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
