Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
~Anais Nin~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leave the memory.
~Thomas Beecham~
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Red Auerbach~
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven~
It is cruel, you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain; of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
~Benjamin Britten~
Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; /
No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure
in life.
~Robert Browning~
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~
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
~Pat Conroy~
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
The high note is not the only thing.
~Placido Domingo~
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.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~Billy Joel~
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
~Geoffrey Latham~
Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.
~Theodore Mungers~
A good composer is slowly discovered, a bad composer is slowly found out.
~Ernest Newman~
I think I should have no other moral wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas in to my brain.
Life seems to go on with out effort, when I am filled with music.
~George Eliot~
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
~Joseph Addison~
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