Famous Quotes

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

Walter Lippmann 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 Walter Lippmann

• "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

• "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

• "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

• "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

• "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."