Music Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The universe without music would be madness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A life without music is an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Music heals all forms of misery”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October...

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil men have no songs.MHow is it then that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Suppose that one assessed the value of a piece of music…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only sick music makes money today.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is no life at all.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche