Music is my Soul

Music is the shorthand of emotion. (Leo Tolstoy)

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. (Samuel Butler)

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. (George Eliot)

Rap is to music as Etch-A-Sketch is to art.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.

When you are in tune with Heaven, you will have a song in your heart.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)

He who sings praise, prays.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,

To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

(William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride")

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. (Hans Christian Andersen)

Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzche)

I write music with an exclamation point! (Richard Wagner)

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach)

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not be separated from the man. (Andre Segovia)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. (Andre Segovia)

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism, & humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. (Vincent Van Gogh)

Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. (Gottfried Whilhem Leibniz) 

I will sing of Your strength, in the morning I will sing of Your love; for You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble (Psalm 59:16)

Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. (Psalm 33:2-3)

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God... (Psalm 40:3)

Sing to the Lord a new song, sing His praise from the end of the earth! (Isaiah 42:10)

Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing (Psalm 100:2)

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the Earth, burst into jubilant song with music (Psalm 98:4)

Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things (Psalm 98:1)

If music be the food of love, play on. (William Shakespeare)

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)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Henry David Thoreau)

The exercise of singing is delightful to Nature, and good to preserve the health of man. It doth strengthen all parts of the breast, and doth open the pipes. (William Byrd)