Celebrate the day Woodstock opened on August 15, 1969 with this special collection of music quotations...
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."-- Joseph Addison
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."-- Joseph Addison
"Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both."-- Henri Frederic Amiel
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."-- Tori Amos
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."-- Eric Anderson
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."--Maya Angelou
"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."-- Louis Armstrong
"Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore."-- Jacques Attali
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."-- Berthold Auerbach (1812-82) German writer
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."--Johann Sebastian Bach
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."-- June Masters Bacher
"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."--Joan Baez
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."-- Sir Thomas Beecham
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) American clergyman
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) German composer
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends
mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music can change the world. "-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925) American writer, educator, University of Southern California sociologist
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."-- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) American conductor, composer
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."-- Benjamin Britten
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93) American Episcopal bishop
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93)American Episcopal bishop
"I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he
wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."-- James Brown
"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "-- James Brown
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."-- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) [Lord Byron] English romantic poet
"Music is a means of rapid transportation. "-- John Cage
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."-- Mariah Carey
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian, essayist
"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."-- Mary Chapin Carpenter
"All music comes from God."-- Johnny Cash
"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "-- Edgar Cayce
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "-- Ray Charles
"Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I’d be in a prison if I didn’t. "-- Paula Cole
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."-- Pat Conroy
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."-- Noel Coward
"As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty."-- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
"At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else—whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being—our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits."-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."-- Jim Davis
"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "-- Miles Davis
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."-- Dixie Chicks, Sin Wagon
"I'd rather be alone like I am tonight, than settle for a kind of love that fades before the morning light."-- Dixie Chicks, I Believe In Love
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."-- Agnes de Mile (1905-93)
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is
rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."-- Maurice Druon From the Memoirs of Zeus
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. "-- Lawrence Durrell
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."-- Gerald Early writer, baseball documentary
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ...I get most you in life out of music. "-- Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."-- (1875-1955) German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."-- George Eliot (1819-80)
"You are the music while the music lasts."--T. S. Eliot
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."-- (1803-82) American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage."--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Art" Essays: First Series)
"The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. "-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wish someone would help me write this song.-- Pink Floyd, Three Wishes
"Then one year you find ten years have gotten behind, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.-- Pink Floyd, Time
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year."-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
"You bought a guitar to punish your Mom."-- Pink Floyd, Welcome To The Machine
"Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all, together we stand, divided we fall."-- Pink Floyd, Hey You
"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination."-- Pink Floyd, Keep Talking
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."-- Aretha Franklin
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. "-- Robert Fripp
"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil. "-- Peter Gabriel
"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "-- Jerry Garcia
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."-- Stephen (F.) Gaskin (b. 1935)American writer, author
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian-born American mystic poet, painter
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"--Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
"I call architecture frozen music."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer, scientist, master of poetry, drama and novel
"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul."-- Katie Greenwood
"All the sounds of the earth are like music."--Oscar Hammerstein(1895-1960)
"Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the
waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you. "-- Jimi Hendrix
"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it."-- Buddy Holly
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American associate justice, US Supreme Court
"I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened."--John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)
"Country music is three chords and the truth."-- Harlan Howard
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."-- Edgar Watson Howe
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."-- Victor Hugo (1802-85) French poet, dramatist, writer
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."-- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) British writer
"The history of a people is found in its songs."-- George Jellinek
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."-- Bruce Jenner
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."-- Billy Joel
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics."-- James Weldon Johnson
"The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what it is the Source." "-- B. B. King
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) African-American reverend, civil rights leader
"Music is Love in search of a word."-- Sidney Lanier (1842-81) American writer, musician
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."-- Geoffrey Latham
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."-- Walter J. Lippmann
"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."-- Hal A. Lingerman
"The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action. "-- Kenny Loggins
"People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet."-- Witold Lutoslawski
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."-- Joseph Addison
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."-- Joseph Addison
"Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both."-- Henri Frederic Amiel
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."-- Tori Amos
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."-- Eric Anderson
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."--Maya Angelou
"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."-- Louis Armstrong
"Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore."-- Jacques Attali
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."-- Berthold Auerbach (1812-82) German writer
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."--Johann Sebastian Bach
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."-- June Masters Bacher
"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."--Joan Baez
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."-- Sir Thomas Beecham
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) American clergyman
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) German composer
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends
mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music can change the world. "-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925) American writer, educator, University of Southern California sociologist
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."-- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) American conductor, composer
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."-- Benjamin Britten
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93) American Episcopal bishop
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93)American Episcopal bishop
"I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he
wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."-- James Brown
"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "-- James Brown
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."-- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) [Lord Byron] English romantic poet
"Music is a means of rapid transportation. "-- John Cage
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."-- Mariah Carey
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian, essayist
"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."-- Mary Chapin Carpenter
"All music comes from God."-- Johnny Cash
"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "-- Edgar Cayce
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "-- Ray Charles
"Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I’d be in a prison if I didn’t. "-- Paula Cole
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."-- Pat Conroy
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."-- Noel Coward
"As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty."-- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
"At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else—whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being—our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits."-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."-- Jim Davis
"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "-- Miles Davis
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."-- Dixie Chicks, Sin Wagon
"I'd rather be alone like I am tonight, than settle for a kind of love that fades before the morning light."-- Dixie Chicks, I Believe In Love
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."-- Agnes de Mile (1905-93)
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is
rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."-- Maurice Druon From the Memoirs of Zeus
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. "-- Lawrence Durrell
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."-- Gerald Early writer, baseball documentary
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ...I get most you in life out of music. "-- Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."-- (1875-1955) German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."-- George Eliot (1819-80)
"You are the music while the music lasts."--T. S. Eliot
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."-- (1803-82) American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage."--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Art" Essays: First Series)
"The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. "-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wish someone would help me write this song.-- Pink Floyd, Three Wishes
"Then one year you find ten years have gotten behind, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.-- Pink Floyd, Time
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year."-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
"You bought a guitar to punish your Mom."-- Pink Floyd, Welcome To The Machine
"Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all, together we stand, divided we fall."-- Pink Floyd, Hey You
"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination."-- Pink Floyd, Keep Talking
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."-- Aretha Franklin
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. "-- Robert Fripp
"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil. "-- Peter Gabriel
"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "-- Jerry Garcia
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."-- Stephen (F.) Gaskin (b. 1935)American writer, author
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian-born American mystic poet, painter
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"--Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
"I call architecture frozen music."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer, scientist, master of poetry, drama and novel
"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul."-- Katie Greenwood
"All the sounds of the earth are like music."--Oscar Hammerstein(1895-1960)
"Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the
waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you. "-- Jimi Hendrix
"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it."-- Buddy Holly
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American associate justice, US Supreme Court
"I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened."--John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)
"Country music is three chords and the truth."-- Harlan Howard
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."-- Edgar Watson Howe
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."-- Victor Hugo (1802-85) French poet, dramatist, writer
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."-- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) British writer
"The history of a people is found in its songs."-- George Jellinek
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."-- Bruce Jenner
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."-- Billy Joel
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics."-- James Weldon Johnson
"The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what it is the Source." "-- B. B. King
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) African-American reverend, civil rights leader
"Music is Love in search of a word."-- Sidney Lanier (1842-81) American writer, musician
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."-- Geoffrey Latham
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."-- Walter J. Lippmann
"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."-- Hal A. Lingerman
"The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action. "-- Kenny Loggins
"People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet."-- Witold Lutoslawski
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