It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
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
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
