Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
