Below are some quotes about my feelings on music. I have come to realize very powerfully recently that I have always been and will always be a musician. I have shed so much within the last 10 years...but music I just cannot shake. When I went to research the connection I found these. Some funny and some deadly serious...enjoy. - Keith Sudano
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”― Albert Einstein
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.” ― Plato.
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse
“The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
“If music be the food of
love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken,
and so die.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“And those who were seen
dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music was my refuge. I
could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”― Maya Angelou
“After silence, that which
comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley, Music
At Night: And Other Essays
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“And I thought about how
many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of
bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with
those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to
have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very
proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's
enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a
Wallflower
“Some people have lives;
some people have music.” ― John Green, Will Grayson
“The only escape from the
miseries of life are music and cats...”― Albert Schweitzer
To stop the flow of music
would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” ―
Aaron Copland
“Music . . . can name the unnamable
and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein
“A man should hear a little
music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in
order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which
God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Because when he
sings...even the birds stop to listen.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“A painter paints pictures
on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski
“Who hears music, feels his
solitude peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning
“I just can't listen to any
more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland .”― Woody Allen
“Ah, music," he said,
wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“I don't stand for black
man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.” ― Bob
Marley
“Music touches us
emotionally, where words alone can't.” ―
Johnny Depp
“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’
First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever
written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet
sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or
a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that
they can’t hide.” ― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Music is the universal
language of mankind.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“For those of you in the
cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can
just rattle your jewelry!” ― John Lennon
“When you make music or
write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible,
condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga
“If being an egomaniac means
I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can
call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” ― John Lennon
“I've always thought people
would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at
significant moments.” ― John Barrowman
“A quiet secluded life in
the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy
to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which
one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's
neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Have you ever heard
somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've
never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you
say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there?
You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people
have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
“Music is the great uniter.
An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and
anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“Where words fail, music
speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
“So don't you worry your
pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. “ ― Taylor
Swift
“Music is the wine that
fills the cup of silence.” ― Robert Fripp
“I love the relationship
that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond
the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit
it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...” ― Nick Hornby
“There ain't no devil, only
God when he's drunk.” ― Tom Waits
“The music is not in the
notes,but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Beethoven tells you what
it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach
tells you what it's like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams
“Music is an agreeable
harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music acts like a magic
key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria von Trapp
“Music is the language of
the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“You have to, take a deep
breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to
awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White
“Music is everybody's
business. It's only the publishers who think people own it” ― John Lennon
“Men profess to be lovers of
music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives
that they have heard it.” ― Henry David
Thoreau
“If you cannot teach me to
fly, teach me to sing.” ― J.M. Barrie,
Peter Pan
“If it weren't for music, I
would think that love is mortal.” ― Mark
Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
“Music is an outburst of the
soul.” ― Frederick Delius
“My heart, which is so full
to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and
weary.” ― Martin Luther
“Music is crucial. Beyond no
way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate,
cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a
tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load
dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete,
you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In
that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel
toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you
want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout,
blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
“Joy, sorrow, tears,
lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that
we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see
reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and
contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”― Albert Schweitzer
“I never liked jazz music
because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I
stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch
somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are
showing you the way.
I used to not like God
because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious
Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of
dreams,
Wandering by lone
sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate
streams.
World-losers and
world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon
gleams;
Yet we are the movers and
shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.”
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur
O'Shaughnessy
“I wake up to the sound of
music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be”― Paul
McCartney
Yet when that dance becomes destructive, it does not mean that I am guilty, that I have corrupted my being. For the outer universe may dance to my music, but my inner being dances only to my Father's music, and He only sings of innocence. - Jesus/ACIM