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Quotes About Beauty

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
~ Camille Saint-Saens
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
~ Dennis Gabor
From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.
~ Jon Foreman
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
~ Miles Davis
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
~ Duke Ellington
When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
~ Eric Dolphy
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
~ Claude Debussy
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.
~ Elvin Jones
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
~ Jean Sibelius
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
~ Johannes Brahms
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
~ Christina Aguilera
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
~ Fernando Botero
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
~ Gabriel Faure
Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
~ Jean Sibelius
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.
~ Kate Spade
Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
~ Susan Polis Schutz
The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.
~ Walter Russell
This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.
~ Michael Lang
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~ Helmut Walcha
Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
~ Chuck Mangione