Famous Quotes

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

Ezra Pound on Music

More quotes about Music

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

  Bob Marley on Music

• "If music be the food of love, play on."

  William Shakespeare on Music

• "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

  Plato on Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Music

• "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

  Ray Charles on Music

More quotes by Ezra Pound

• "A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."

• "It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

• "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

• "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

• "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."