famous quotes about music

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman



Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer



Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale



I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran



People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841



You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez



What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785



A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem



If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley



Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. ~Author Unknown



A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~Winston Churchill



No man does right by a woman at a party. ~Harry Golden



Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson



Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ~Ambrose Bierce



A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Corri Alius



The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher



I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey



I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. ~Jack Smith



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889



Better than silence is? ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow