Music Is Quotes - Page 3

• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spiritual, Art, Blessed

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• Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

  Jim Henson

  Soul, Quality, Essentials

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• Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

  Boethius

  United, Ifs

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• 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

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• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

  J. G. Holland

  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

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• Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Hearing, Intermittent

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• What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Musical, Classical Music, Notes

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• Music is...the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Men, Coordination

  Igor Stravinsky (1958). “An autobiography”

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• The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

  Thomas Beecham

  Conscious, Release, Function

  Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

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• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Nonsense, Wells

  1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Knowledge, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness 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

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Heart, Looks

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• Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Work, Extraordinary

  'Private Lives' (1930) act 1

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• Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and 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.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Music, Mean, Love Is

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1927). “About ourselves: psychology for normal people”

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• Music is everybody's possession.

  John Lennon

  Possession

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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