"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ― Walter Lippmann Topic(s): 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." "The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." More In Music "If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny."― Larry David "To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it’s really fun."― Billy Corgan "Some music really does suck!"― Henry Rollins