Sound And Music Quotes

• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sympathy, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

  William Cowper

  Music, Heart, Air

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Wine

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Music, Piano, Soul

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

  Eleanor Parker

  Men, Sound Of Music, Irresistible

  "Fictional character: The Baroness". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  Yoko Ono

  Music, Artist, People

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• The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

  Colin Mochrie

  Alive, Hills, Sound Of Music

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• Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

  Plato

  Music, Republic, Art Education

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Song, Years

  "The Sound of Music" (song) (1959)

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Silence, Trying, May

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Musical Life, Musical

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  Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Communication, Talking

  Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music, Echoes, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Wings, Giving

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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