Famous Quotes

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Oliver Wendell Holmes

• "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

• "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

• "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

• "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

• "I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"