quotes on music

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988



I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"



Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ~Hesketh Pearson



Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ~John A. MacDonald



Money may talk, but chocolate sings. ~Author Unknown



I live my daydreams in music. ~Albert Einstein



The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Damon Runyon, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932



Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown



How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. ~Bernard Joseph Saurin, Blanche et Guiscard, translated



A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore



Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon



It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller



It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow



I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~From the movie Gladiator



Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. ~Carrie Latet



If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken



Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain



Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander



My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ~Christopher Morley