Inspirational Music Quotes & Sayings
A collection of inspirational sayings and quotes about music by music lovers, musicians, philosphers and other famous people - reflections on music, the divine and spiritual aspects of music which express emotions, uplift and inspire, touch the heart & heal and soothe the soul.
Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music." ~ Carlos Santana ~
" Music can change the world because it can change people." ~ Bono, U2~
"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 ~
"... 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 ~
"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same." ~ John Denver ~
"A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being, and according to its particular influence either slows or quickens the rhythm of the blood circulation; it either wakens or soothes the nervous system. It arouses a person to greater passions or it calms him by bringing him peace. According to the sound and its influence a certain effect is produced. Sound becomes visible in the form of radiance. This shows that the same energy which goes into the form of
sound before being visible is absorbed by the physical body. In that way the physical body recuperates and becomes charged with new magnetism." ~ from 'Mysticism
of Sound' by Hazrat Inayat Khan ~
"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 (1894-1985) ~
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) ~
"Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?" ~ Leonardo DaVinci ~
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." ~ Billy Joel ~
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." ~ George Eliot (1819-80) ~
Just as certain selections of music will nourish the physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind." ~ from 'The
Healing Energies of Music' by Hal A. Lingerman ~
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." ~ Plato ~
" Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." ~ Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) ~
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. ~ Agnes de Mile (1905-93) ~
" Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~ Oscar Wilde ~
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. ~ Lord (George Gordon Noel) Byron English poet, 1788 - 1824 ~
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet! ~ William Cowper (1731 - 1768) ~
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade. ~ Joseph Addison (1672-1719) from "A Song For St. Cecilia's Day ~
A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)) from 'The Voiceless'
1858 ~
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Congregational clergyman, religious writer and reformer
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou ~
"After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music." ~ Aldous Huxley ~
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~ Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931) ~
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) ~
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