Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
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 the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
