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Posted at 4:30 am By: jamie | Filed Under Music Articles
Music-lovers, we all are. Let’s hear what famous and legendary people (from playwrights to poets, artists to authors, composers to critics and some more) say about our well-loved craft:
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)
“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.”
Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
“Music is only love looking for words”
Lawrence Durrell
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
“Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.”
Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
T.S. Eliot (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
“Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.”
Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese violinist and teacher who introduced millions of children to his “Suzuki Method”, 1898-1998)
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen (Danish Author whose fairy tales are famous throughout the world, 1805-1875)
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”
Sergei Rachmaninov
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland (American Composer, 1900-1990)
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”
Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world’s most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC)
“Music is love in search of a word.”
Sidonie Gabrielle
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