Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
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"
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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 wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
