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Everyday is a good day with the right attitude. ~ Todd Wells ~

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach ~

Music is the universal language of mankind.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Bach gave us God's word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words. ~ From a German opera house ~

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll ~

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.   ~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
~ William P. Merrill ~

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.    ~ Anita Robertson ~

Without silence, there would be no music. ~ Todd Wells ~

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~ John A. Logan ~

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~ Gustav Mahler ~

You are the music while the music lasts. ~ T.S. Eliot ~

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
~ Charlie Parker ~

Play the music, not the instrument. ~ Author Unknown ~

Music is the poetry of the air. ~ Richter ~

Where words fail, music speaks. ~ Hans Christian Anderson ~

Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

He who sings scares away his woes. ~ Cervantes ~

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
~ Joseph Addison ~

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
~ George Gershwin ~

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.     ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~

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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach ~

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Red Auerbach ~

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~ Leonard Bernstein ~

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
~ Louis Armstrong ~

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ~ Pat Conroy ~

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~ Confucius ~

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it's really a stupid thing to want to do. ~ Elvis Costello ~

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 ~

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music.
~ Carlos Santana ~

Music can change the world because it can change people.
~ Bono, U2 ~

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?
~ Leonardo DaVinci ~

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ~ George Eliot (1819 - 80) ~

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. ~ Plato ~

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the in expressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Silence is the canvas on which musicians paint their music.
~ Todd Wells ~

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix ~

Music is everybody's possession. It's only the publishers who think that people own it. ~ John Lennon ~

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
~ Elvis Presley ~

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.
~ Louis Armstrong ~

To play without passion is inexcusable! ~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ Frederic Chopin ~

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
~ Franz Joseph Haydn ~

Music, what a wonderful thing…

Relaxes the mind,

And makes the heart sing.

To the soul, what elation it does bring.

 

Music, what a gibing thing…                     5

Disturbs the mind,

Makes the heart sting.

To the soul, what dismay it brings.

 

On this plightful note, let me say,

If rock is one’s delight,                          10

Then let it be.

But not for me. What a dreadful thing!

 

Music, what a stately thing…

Bold and brilliant,

At times, triumphantly resounding.         15

To the soul, what awe it does bring.

 

Music, what an emollient thing…

Swirling ever so gently,

Like an eddy.

To the soul, invigoration it does bring.    20

Todd Wells 1999

Music, what an evocative thing…

Stir’s one’s sensuality,

And arouses one’s innermost sanctum.

To the soul, what pleasure it does bring.

 

Music, what a vapid thing…                        25

Like a whirligig without a whirl,

Or perhaps a bow without an arrow.

To the soul, what a voidness it brings.

 

Music, what a wiling thing…

A distraction in the midst of concentration,   30

Like a house of mirrors.

To the soul, an annoyance it makes.

 

Music, what a needed thing…

Like the ever-changing kaleidoscope,

Emotions are elicited.                                35

For the soul, what a marvelous thing.

 

Music, what a wonderful thing…

The universal language for all mankind –

A priceless treasure indeed.

Music, what an eternal!                                40