Famous Quotes

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

George Jean Nathan 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 George Jean Nathan

• "No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."

• "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

• "Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

• "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

• "Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."