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Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
music
word
Music is noise that thinks.”
Victor Hugo
music
to think
You have no idea how it feels to hear behind you the tramp of a giant like Beethoven.”
Johannes Brahms
music
All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
music
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
Gottfried Leibniz
music
If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
-
Twelfth Night
love
music
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo
music
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
music
philosophy
wisdom
Architecture in general is frozen music.”
Friedrich von Schelling
architecture
music
Music before all else.”
Paul Verlaine
-
Art Poétique
music
Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
-
Twilight of the Idols
life
mistake
music
The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
architecture
music
The rest belongs to the music as well.”
Stefan Zweig
music
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”
Henry David Thoreau
-
The Service
Language
love
music
peace
Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.”
Claude Debussy
Infinity
music
When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.”
Alan Watts
dance
music
Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.”
Isidore of Seville
knowledge
music
Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo Tolstoy
music
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Henry David Thoreau
danger
music
Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
music
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
music
soul
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
music
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
Soren Kierkegaard
heart
music
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde
music
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”
Charles Baudelaire
music
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
music
soul
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
Charles Baudelaire
dance
music
poetry
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
knowledge
music
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.”
Gustave Flaubert
dance
music
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Marcus Aurelius
music
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