The beauty and wonder of Music

The effects of music

• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  Red Auerbach
• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. Anais Nin
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.  Maya Angelou
• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.  Thomas Carlyle

Music and nature

• Look at the stars sometimes. They are only notes They are music. Pat Conroy
• Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
• All the sounds of the earth are like music. Oscar Hammerstein
• There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. George Gordon Byron
• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.  Henri Frederic Amiel

Expression through music

• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Victor Hugo
• Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen
• The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.  Agnes de Mile
• Music is the vernacular of the human soul. Geoffrey Latham
• Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul. Katie Greenwood
• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.  Billy Joel

Other

• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan
• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.  George Szell
• Mozart is sweet sunshine.  Antonin Dvorak
• Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.  Frank Zappa