Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Only sick music makes money today.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Making music should not be left to the professionals.
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
When words leave off, music begins.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
I call architecture frozen music.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Life without music would be a mistake.
Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Music is Love in search of a word.
Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Without music life would be a mistake.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away.
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE
Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
The earth has music for those who listen.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
I hate music, especially when it's played.
When words fail, music speaks.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.