Quotes on Music

Ankur Garg (Company Secretary and Compliance Officer)   (114773 Points)

24 June 2009  

 

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
 
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 Music

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is the poetry of the air.

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. 

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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Music's the medicine of the mind. 

You are the music while the music lasts. 

Music is the universal language of mankind. 

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.  Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. 

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. 

Music is an outburst of the soul. 

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. 

Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present.  It's not much fun to look 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. 

Music is what life sounds like.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
 
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. 

 
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. 

When words leave off, music begins.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. 

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.