"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
― Walter Lippmann
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Music
More From Walter Lippmann
- "The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
- "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
- "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
More In Music
- "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life."― Norman Cousins
- "I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy."― Fred Durst
- "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."― William Shakespeare