It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
