Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
