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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Sep 10, 2025
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
Where words leave off, music begins.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Music gives a soul to the universe.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
Music can change the world.
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
Where words fail, music speaks.