Music

All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr’d To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

 

There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

With shrieking and squeaking

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

And ther he saugh, with ful avysement

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Music heals all forms of misery

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Orpheus with his lute made trees,

 

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

 

Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The trumpet shall be heard on high The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!

The harp that once through Tara’s halls

Jazz is the music of the body.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

The spirituals and the blues were not created out of sweet deceit. Spirituals and blues contain sublimated bitterness and humility, pathos and bewilderment.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.