Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Quotations
Music
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 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
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
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.
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
