It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
