It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
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.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
