Instruments/music

Famous quotes containing the words instruments and/or music:

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)

“Through music the passions enjoy themselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)