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| A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~ Leopold Stokowski |
| Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach |
| All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~ Thomas Carlyle |
| If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~ Mencius |
| Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~ Gustav Mahler |
| Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~ Michael Torke |
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, |
| He who sings scares away his woes. ~ Cervantes |
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| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou, |
| Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli |
| Music is what feelings sound like. ~ Author Unknown |
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~ Lord Byron |
| Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~ Henri Rabaud |
| Music is the poetry of the air. ~ Richter |
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~ William P. Merrill |
| If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada |
| Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven |
| I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~ H.A. Overstreet |
| My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~ Edward Elgar |
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker |
| Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~ William F. Buckley |
| Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| Play the music, not the instrument. ~ Author Unknown |
| Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~ Robert Fripp |
| [An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~ John Chesson |