Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Music is the soul of language.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music.

This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

If music be the food of love; play on.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

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

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

The earth has music for those who listen.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Life is a song. Love is the music.

A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver saddness, like a Christ face.

Music is Love in search of a word.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Your fortune stateth: You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Music is only love looking for words.

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and 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.