Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Music

Music

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.--Johann Sebastian Bach
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.--Catherine Drinker Bowen (Friends and Fiddlers)
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.--Plotinus (The Enneads)
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.--Ann Petry ("Solo on the Drums" in '47 Magazine of the Year)
For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech.--Author unknown
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.--George Eliot
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.--Henry David Thoreau (The Service)
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music describes what cannot be studied mathematically or scientifically-it makes the intangible sensible.--Matthew Eisner
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior--Boethius (De Institutione Music, 6th century A.D.)
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.--Thomas Carlyle ("The Opera")
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
[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 (Journals)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.--Berthold Auerback
A musician may suddenly reach a point at which pleasure in the technique of art entirely falls away, and in some moment of inspiration, he becomes the instrument through which music is played.--Edwin Diller Starbuck (The Psychology of Religion)
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.--Abraham Maslow
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.--Anne Morrow Lindberg
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.--A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Art" Essays: First Series)
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.--Miriam Makeba
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.--Igor Stravinsky ("Subject: Music" New York Times Magazine, 9/27/64)
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.--Barbara Sher
When I compose I sit down to the piano, shut my eyes, and play what I hear.--Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.--Maria Callas
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?--Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)