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.
Quotations
Music
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
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"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
