Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
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
