Quotations by Theme

Music

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
Aaron Copland,

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley,

"It’s language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate."
Arnold Bennett,

"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead"
Benjamin Disraeli,

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life."
Berthold Auerbach,

"A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens…if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly…to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it."
Charles Ives,

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts and your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn."
Charlie Parker,

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
Cyril Connolly,

"It is the stretched sould that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity, where energies flow smoothly in one direction, there will be much doing but no music."
Eric Hoffer,

"Without music life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,

"Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music."
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini,

"Where words fail, music speaks."
Hans Christian Andersen,

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
Henry Van Dyke,

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul Richter,

"The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."
Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe,

"There’s music in the sighing of the 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,

"Take a music bath once or twice a week and for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
Oliver Wendell Holmes,

"Music is the art that is most nigh to tears and memory"
Oscar Wilde,

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
Plato,

"Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. Its not much fun to looking forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment."
Sonnett Branche,

"Music is what feelings sound like."
Unknown,

"It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible."
Victor de la Prade,

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo,

"If music be the food of love play on: give me excessof it."
William Shakespear,

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