"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
Topic(s):
Music
More From Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
- "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."
- "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
More In Music
- "One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I’m working."― Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- "Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."― Andres Segovia
- "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune."― Phillips Brooks