It's the simplest properties that will help you clear yourself of negativity ... The profound power of a simple prayer. The strength of a deep breath. The gentle guidance of good music.
Jeffrey Wands
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls; No gold rewards, but song alone, The deeds of great and noble souls. [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.
Gottfried Augustus Burger
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
When the music changes, so does the dance
African Proverb
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Charles Baudelaire
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere
James Martineau
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius
Jazz is... An open-ended music designed for open minds.
Unknown
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all tradesî
Mark Twain