Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it >>

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on t >>

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. >>

Quotations about Music

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor gr >>

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. >>

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, the >>

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric