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)
Dance - no translation needed.--Kristy Nilsson
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.--Rumi
Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.--Kristy Nilsson
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.--Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.--Thomas Carlyle
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
If God has the recipe of life then love is the cake and music is the icing.--Dale Morris
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.--Henry David Thoreau (The Service)
It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful; it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful.--Kristy Nilsson
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 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
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.--Victor Hugo
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.--Plato
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.--Martin Luther
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.--Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior--Boethius (De Institutione Music, 6th century A.D.)
Music is the expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.--Stephen Gaskin
Music is the fourth great material want of our natures - first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.--John Christian Bovee
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.--Lance Morrow
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 keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.--Susan Wittig Albert
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.--Herbert Spenser (Essays on Education)
[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
Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music - and not the other way around.--Kristy Nilsson
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
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.--Solomon Short
Nobody can teach you to sing the blues, you have to feel the blues.--Ernestine Anderson
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
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.--Angela Monet
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)
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.--Agnes De Mille
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)
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.--Johann Sebastian Bach
Without music I should wish to die.--Edna St. Vincent Millay