Music Quotes
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. "
" Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
"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! "
"If the King loves music, it is well with the land. "
" Without music life would be a mistake. "
" 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. "
" If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. "
"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? "
"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."
"He who sings scares away his woes. "
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. "
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. "
"Music is what feelings sound like. "
"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."
"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. "
"Music is the poetry of the air. "
" Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. "
"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. "
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. "
" If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. "
"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. "
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. "
" 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. "
"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. "
"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!"
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. "
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. "
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. "
"Play the music, not the instrument. "
"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. "
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