George Eliot Quotes About Music

• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Effort, Goes On

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

  George Eliot

  Music, Middlemarch, Interrupted

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

• Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

  George Eliot

  Music, Ears, Pipe

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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