"Music has the power of producing a..." - Quote by Aristotle

“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”

“Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.”

“When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.”

“I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.”

“Music is the perfect type of art.”

“I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.”

“Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.”

“True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.”

“What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.”