Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only
believe in a God who knew how to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of
everyday..."
Berthold Auerbach
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places
of the soul”
Plato (428 BC-348 BC)
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius quotes (1862-1934)
and life to everything.” ―
Plato
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a
feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
E. Y. Harburg
“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the
mind and gives it rest, Heals the heart and makes it whole, Flows from
heaven to the soul.
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature
cannot do without”
Confucius
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim
secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and
whereto.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words
and cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo
“Music is love in search of a word.”
Sidonie Gabrielle
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places
of the soul”
Plato
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is
done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for
something they never had, and never will have.”
Edgar Watson Howe
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not
enough for music”
Sergei Rachmaninov
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of
time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland
“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a
higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“I've never known a musician who regretted being one.
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not
going to let you down.”
Virgil Thomson
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and
memory.”
Oscar Wilde
“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven
given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the
secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is
intermittent.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius
Music is the universal language of mankind”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Most people live and die with their music still
unplayed. They never dare to try.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes
unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed,
and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“When the music changes, so does the dance”
African Proverb
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am
invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the
latest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by
those who could not hear the music”
Angela Monet
“Music is only love looking for words”
Lawrence Durrell
“Where there's music there can be love”
French Proverb
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu
“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.”
Henry David Thoreau
You always feel better when you sing. Music touches
people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it
just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when
you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same”
Jewel Kilcher
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and
bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he
would not bother trying to say it in music.”
Gustav Mahler
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance
for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams,
we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may
give an idea of love”
Louis-Hector Berlioz
“Music is like making love: either all or nothing.”
Isaac Stern
“Music does bring people together. It allows us to
experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and
spirit.”
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence”
Robert Fripp