Famous Quotes

"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?"

Khalil Gibran 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 Khalil Gibran

• "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

• "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

• "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

• "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."

• "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."