I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
