Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Music

• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

• Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Sweet, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2886, Delphi Classics

• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Mediocrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

• Music causes us to think eloquently.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Causes

• The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Speech, Cures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

• Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2416, Delphi Classics

• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Secret, Who We Are

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

• Two touch the string,
  The harp is dumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Two, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

• Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3208, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

• Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Poor

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'Poetry and Imagination'.

• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Wine, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

• In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Color, Snakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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