There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Quotations
Music
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
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
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.
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
