Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Music
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
