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~ The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. ~

Zoltan Kodaly

~ The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. ~

Zoltan Kodaly

~ There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~

Minnie Aumonier

~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~

John Adams

~ Philosophy is the highest music ~

Plato

~ Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread ~

M.F.K. Fisher

~ We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. 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. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~

Alan Watts

~ There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. ~

Jim Davis

~ Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex ~

John Keats

~ The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ~

Havelock Ellis

~ A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge ~

Nelson Bryant

~ Jazz is the music of the body ~

Anais Nin

~ Jazz is the folk music of the machine age ~

Paul Whiteman

~ Jazz is a music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. ~

Johnny Griffin

~ Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Architecture is frozen music. ~

Goethe

~ The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. ~

Vitruvius Pollio

~ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ~

Laurie Anderson

~ Architecture is petrified music. ~

Felix E. Schelling

~ And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. ~

Michael Jackson

~ I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. ~

Michael Jackson

~ Music is only love looking for words ~

Lawrence Durrell

~ Life is a musical so sing like no one is listening! ~

Jasmine Crowe

~ Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~

Robert Browning

~ The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~

Heinrich Heine

~ Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ ..... to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live. ~

William O. Douglas

~ Beauty created by Nature is equal in value to, and to be accorded reverence equal to that of the beauty of music, art or poetry of man, and experts are available to testify as to degrees of natural beauty just as they are able to testify to the quality of mortalsí art. ~

David Sive

~ Thereís no music like a little riverís ... It takes the mind out of doors ... and... sir, it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries." ~

Jimmy Carter

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