Quotes About Music

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

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

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

I've always thought elephants walk as if they have music being piped into their heads that no one else can hear. And from the roll of their hips and their swagger, I'm going to guess that the artist is Barry White.

Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

You'd be surprised. Charlie said. You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit. What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Tears have a whole different melody, didn't they? without the pain threaded through them?_______ nineteen minutes .

If you ask me, music is the language of memories.

In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music—the ones that elicit vivid memories—cause the greatest activity on brain scans.

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tears had a whole different melody, didn't they, without the pain threaded through them?

This is true of anyone: the music we choose is a clear reflection of who we really are.

the breeze would draw a violin bow across the branches of a tree and I would again hear her lullaby. I would listen to the chime of coins being counted, and I would imagine her laughter. Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all kinds of things. Because all of it matters. Even if it is awful. Everybody knows all the bad movies and the bad songs on the radio. Because it's the only thing anybody has in common anymore. It's all anybody has. So you were wrong about that and you were wrong about us and you were wrong about me, but he doesn't actually say any of this out loud.

Scientifically, music is a proven source of healing and is routinely used by modern-day health providers both in private practice and in hospitals to help patients improve. In fact, the field of physio-acoustics studies how sound frequencies work to "create sympathetic vibration in the deep tissues of the body," even down to our bones.

With gentle melodies and passive rhythms, neurological pathways open to receive the flow of positive energy.