Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
