It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
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"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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.