Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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.
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.
I write music with an exclamation point
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
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.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
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.
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.
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
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.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Making music should not be left to the professionals.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
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.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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.
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Only sick music makes money today.
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.
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
I hate music, especially when it's played.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
The earth has music for those who listen.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Philosophy is the highest music.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Life without music would be a mistake.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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.
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad.
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.
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
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 is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is 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.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
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.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.