Music

(71 votes)   Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(68 votes)   The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

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(66 votes)   'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson
1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet

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(66 votes)   You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(62 votes)   I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Henri B. Stendhal
1783-1842, French Writer

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(62 votes)   It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(60 votes)   I like to see you move with the rhythm; I Like to see when you're dancing' from within.

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

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(59 votes)   Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(57 votes)   If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it...

William Shakespeare

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(56 votes)   Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(55 votes)   When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have

Edgar Watson Howe

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(54 votes)   Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Jean Genet
1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist

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(54 votes)   We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook
1925-, British Theatre and Film Director

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(54 votes)   Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(52 votes)   Live, Lax, Luv (Jonas)(Jonas)(Jonas)

Victoria C
Chilaxer

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