Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
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"
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
