Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
