Hope In Love

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. – George Eliot

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. – John Cage

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

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! – William Shakespeare

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. – Albert Einstein

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. – Albert Scheritzer

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. – Hunter S. Thompson

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory – Henry Giles

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. – Sir Thomas Beecham

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. Albert Einstein when asked about his theory of relativity

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music – Carlos Santana

Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us. – unknown

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Bach gave us God’s Word. Mozart gave us God’s laughter. Beethoven gave us God’s fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words. – quote from outside an old opera house

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. – Henry Van Dyke

Music is the poetry of the air – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. – Bill Cosby

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. – Edward Elgar

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. – John Keats

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. – Martin Luther

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. – Benjamin Britten

Music is love in search of a word. – Sidney Lanier

You are the music while the music lasts. – T. S. Eliot

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. – Angela Monet

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music – Sergei Rachmaninov

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. – Edgar Watson Howe

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. – E. Y. Harburg

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely – Florent Schmitt

The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. – Richard Baker

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. – Leigh Hunt

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. – Aaron Copland

Truly to sing, that is a different breath. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It’s not much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the moment. – Terri Guillemets

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. – H.A. Overstreet

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. – Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. – William P. Merrill

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. – Sydney Smith

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? – Michael Torke

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.” -Aaron Copland

I don’t want you to play me a riff that’s going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play – Ozzy Osbourne

Everyone was using tiny brushes and doing watercolors, while Jimi Hendrix was painting galactic scenes in Cinemascope. We are working in a field of mystical resonance, sound and vibration…that’s what makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up – Carlos Santana

The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It’s everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It’s everything, but it’s elusive – Les Paul

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it and you need them to hear it. – James Taylor

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. – Mark Twain