Quotes About Music

If you want to get a glimpse of how your whole body/heart/brain Mind system sounds when it works collectively, listen to a symphony. Compositions by Beethoven might be a good start, because his deafness forced him to tune in to his heart's code rather than rely on his brain's sense of hearing.

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

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

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

One child was provoked to a stumbling dance at the feet of the fiddler, who was sawing his heart out with his eyes shut.

I saw a stranger yestreen. I put food in the eating place, Drink in the drinking place, Music in the listening place— And the lark in its song sang! 'Often, often, often, often, Comes the Christ in the stranger's guise.

Whenever an art form—music, book, drama, song—is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art—even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap—drains the life from it.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.

the music speaks for itself, there's no need to say anything

Pianos should never go out of tune. The true sin is something different than what we've been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day. I

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

once, someone told me that the music had been created by God and that rapid movement was necessary for people to get in touch with themselves. For years, i felt that this was true, and now I 'm being forced to do the most difficult thing in the world - slow down. Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention. Isn't the soul more important? of course it is, but if your soul could communicate with your brain, you would be able to change even more things

Worse than the composers' suffering, though, was the fact that the girl was playing the music with such soul because she knew she was going to die. And am not going to die? Where is my soul that I might play the music of my own life with such enthusiasm?

If you have to take a stand, home's the best place to do it," he said, and his voice was as soothing as the music.

I need the words to find the music!

Music is music, but in a revolution, land and resources are supposed to change hands.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.