It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
