Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
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"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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
