It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
