It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
