Music

(30 votes)   Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Oscar Wilde

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(29 votes)   Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Hal A. Lingerman

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(29 votes)   Music causes us to think eloquently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(29 votes)   The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(29 votes)   There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(29 votes)   We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(29 votes)   Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

H. R. Haweis

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(28 votes)   All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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(28 votes)   Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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(28 votes)   If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(28 votes)   Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Sir John Herschel

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(27 votes)   Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(27 votes)   I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

H. A. Overstreet

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(27 votes)   Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Hal A. Lingerman

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(27 votes)   Song is the heroics of speech.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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