Music

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

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

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

 

Orpheus with his lute made trees,

 

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.

 

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes.

 

De la musique avant toute chose .

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.

Passion, whether violent or not, must never be expressed to the point of exciting disgust, and . . . music, even in the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear.

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

[ Groucho Marx speaking :] Come, Kapellmeister, let the violas throb! My regiment leaves at dawn.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Music heals all forms of misery

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.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

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

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Where words fail, music speaks.