MUSIC

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

Shneur Zalman

In music's sweet harmony, I have all the proof I need of God.

Pat Conroy

Thomas Moore

Music, oh how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! Why should feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

Song is, after all, nothing more or less than the soundtrack for the human experience.

Thomas Hampson

I heard my people singing--in the glow of the parlour coalstove and on the summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

Paul Robeson

Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is unthinkable, Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I don't know.

John Keats

It appears to me that it is the special province of music to move the heart.

Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I keep good time, but I rush.....

Signe Johannes

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Rene Coty

Sir Edward Appleton

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it's a language I don't understand.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Doug Floyd

Kin Hubbard

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Never forget that music is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Robert Fulghum

Robert Fripp

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

 

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