In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Quotations
Music
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
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 moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"
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"
