Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
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"
