It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
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"
