In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
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
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
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"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
