It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
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
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
