Famous Quotes

"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."

Stendhal 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 Stendhal

• "This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."

• "Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."