It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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 gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
