Love teacheth music. [ Plato ]

Music's golden tongue. [ Keats ]

The music of the heart. [ Akenside ]

Music is the soul of art. [ J. B. Brown ]

The free
Mighty, music-haunted sea. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

The hidden soul of harmony. [ Milton ]

All of heaven we have below. [ Addison ]

Music is one of God's gifts. [ Al-Misri ]

Architecture is frozen music! [ Madame de Stael ]

Music is the child of praise. [ Thomas Ken ]

Music is the child of prayer. [ Melancthon ]

There is a divinity in music. [ E. Erskine ]

The stormy music of the drum. [ Campbell ]

Music, where soft voices die.
Vibrates in the memory. [ Shelley ]

The language spoken by angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Music helps not the toothache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

His very foot has music in 't,
As he comes up the stair. [ W. J. Mickle ]

Music is the poetry of the air. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

It was Love who invented music. [ Virey ]

Poetry is the music of the soul. [ Voltaire ]

Music is the harmony of the soul. [ Swinburne ]

The still, sad music of humanity. [ Wordsworth ]

O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]

Even wolves are charmed by music. [ Rutini ]

There is a sadness in sweet sound
That quickens tears. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God. [ Charles G. Leland ]

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. [ Emerson ]

Great strokes make not sweet music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How light the touches are that kiss
The music from the chords of life! [ Coventry Patmore ]

Poetry, the sister-spirit of music. [ Mme. le Vert ]

Light flashes in the gloomiest sky,
And music in the dullest plain. [ Keble ]

Music is the highest of all science. [ J. S. Bach ]

For discords make the sweetest airs. [ Butler ]

Music waves eternal wands, -
Enchantress of the souls of mortals! [ E. C. Stedman ]

Music lends to piety wings to heaven. [ B. Gilpin ]

Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Kind words are the music of the world. [ F. W. Faber ]

Music arose with its voluptuous swell. [ Byron ]

The ordered music of the marching orbs. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Music is a harbinger of eternal melody. [ Mozart ]

Music can noble hints impart.
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art. [ Addison ]

The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed.
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls,
As if that soul were fled. [ Moore ]

Music so softens and disarms the mind
That not an arrow does resistance find. [ Waller ]

Music to the mind is as air to the body. [ Plato ]

It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And, ever widening, slowly silence all. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The music highest bordering upon heaven. [ Lamb ]

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night.
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, over lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light. [ Moore ]

A merry companion is music in a journey. [ Proverb ]

Music is like the spirit; it never dies. [ W. Shield ]

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells.
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime! [ Tom Moore ]

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief.
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison and of plague. [ Armstrong ]

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away. [ Longfellow ]

Music and love are the wings of the soul. [ Berlioz ]

Her step is music, and her voice is song. [ Bailey ]

It rose, that chanted mournful strain,
Like some lone spirit's over the plain;
'Twas musical, but sadly sweet,
Such as when winds and harp-strings meet,
And take a long unmeasured tone,
To mortal minstrelsy unknown. [ Byron ]

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. [ William Shakespeare ]

You make as good music as a wheel-barrow. [ Proverb ]

Music loosens a heart that care has bound. [ Byrd ]

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar. [ Byron ]

Music's force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song. [ Prior ]

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
How soft the music of those village bells.
Falling at intervals upon the ear,
In cadence sweet, now dying all away. [ Cowper ]

Dashing in big drops on the narrow pane,
And making mournful music for the mind,
While plays his interlude the wizzard wind,
I hear the singing of the frequent rain. [ William H. Burleigh ]

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. [ Spenser ]

Music resembles poetry; in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach. [ Pope ]

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn.
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute.
Are half so sweet as tender human words. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Music is the universal language of mankind. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. [ George Eliot ]

The greatest sounds are not the best music. [ Proverb ]

I really liked it. Even the music was good. [ Yogi Berra, when asked if he liked the opera one evening ]

There is strange music in the stirring wind! [ Rev. Wm. L. Bowles ]

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. [ Sir A. Hunt ]

The mind, the music breathing from her face. [ Byron ]

He that lives in hope danceth without music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Why should the devil have all the good tunes? [ Rowland Hill ]

There is music in all things, If men had ears. [ Byron ]

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. [ William Shakespeare ]

And evermore the waters worship God;
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves! [ Mrs. Hale ]

Around her shone
The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face.
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul. [ Byron ]

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Carlyle ]

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. [ Congreve ]

They say women and music should never be dated. [ Goldsmith ]

My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Music is best enjoyed in the company of others. [ Hwuy Yung ]

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late. [ George Herbert ]

The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]

Music is always very good diversion for a king. [ Frederick the Great ]

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night.
Like softest music to attending ears! [ William Shakespeare ]

My mother, is an expression of music and melody. [ Mme. Clairon ]

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music. [ Mirabeau ]

The apothecary's mortar spoils the luter's music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]

Music is both sunshine and irrigation to the mind. [ W. S. Landor ]

Music is good or bad as the end to which it tendeth. [ Feltham ]

Let me have music dying, and I seek no more delight. [ Keats ]

Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]

An ass at the lyre, (i.e. one unsusceptible of music).

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. [ Barrow ]

Around her shone The light of love, the purity of grace.
The mind, the music breathing from her face;
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole;
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul! [ Byron ]

The acquirement of music should be made simple and easy. [ Guy Aretin ]

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. [ Chateaubriand ]

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. [ Vitruvius ]

Music, rather than poetry, should be called the happy art. [ Richter ]

Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life. [ Berthold Auerbach ]

God save me from a poor fiddler who knows nothing of music. [ F. Geminiani ]

Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. [ Tennyson ]

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods. [ Wordsworth ]

But the soul is not the body and the breath is not the flute;
Both together make the music, either marred and all is mute. [ Robert Browning ]

Much is set to music that is not even worthy of being spoken. [ Beaumarchais ]

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love. [ Ricard ]

Languages begin by being a music, and end by being an algebra. [ Ampere ]

Music is a pleasing accomplishment; let the fair learn to sing. [ Ovid ]

Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet. [ Wordsworth ]

Music is a gift of the, Author of Nature to the whole human race. [ Hogarth ]

Music! - O, how faint, how weak, language fades before thy spell! [ Moore ]

Music is a natural sentiment, not a merely artificial acquirement. [ O.S. Fowler ]

He murmurs near the running brooks a music sweeter than their own. [ Wordsworth ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

How sour sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept! [ William Shakespeare ]

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. [ Horace Walpole ]

Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language. [ Chatfield ]

Music must begin in harmony, continue in harmony, and end in harmony. [ Confucius ]

The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. [ Confucius ]

Music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor. [ Sterne ]

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. [ Addison ]

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. [ Tennyson ]

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [ Quintilian ]

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. [ Voltaire ]

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. [ P. J. Bailey ]

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. [ Beattie ]

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony, but organically I am incapable of a tune. [ Lamb ]

I was all ear, and took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death. [ Milton ]

The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. [ Carlyle ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. [ H. L. F. Helmholtz ]

The heart is like an instrument whose strings steal nobler music from life's many frets. [ Gerald Massey ]

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them. [ George Eliot ]

If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. [ Ouida ]

Music is the metre of this poetic movement, and is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music. [ Richter ]

Madame de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystallized spirituality. [ Alcott ]

There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, Music, and Woman. [ Fontanelle ]

Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my mind, either in the act of hearing music or a few hours after. [ Alfieri ]

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment: wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners. [ Bryant ]

O, it came over my ear like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odor! [ William Shakespeare ]

I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon of my creed, that whom God loveth not, they love not music. [ T. Morley ]

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, - first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. [ Bovee ]

See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]

Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]

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 ]

There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. [ La Bruyère ]

All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit - almost the only innocent and unpunished passion. [ Sydney Smith ]

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. [ Landor ]

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand. [ Lord Bacon ]

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance. [ Caesar ]

Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty. On the contraiy, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. [ Goethe ]

The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns. [ Carlyle ]

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]

Thus came the lovely spring, with a rush of blossoms and music, flooding the earth with flowers and the air with melodies vernal. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Where painting is weakest, - namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, - there music is sublimely strong. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. [ Addison ]

Music was a thing of the soul; a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea; a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. [ J. G. Holland ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. [ Luther ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains. [ Henry Giles ]

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Music would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction, and send their minds back to study in good tune. [ Milton ]

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. [ Percival ]

Young voices around the domestic altar, breathing sacred music at the hour of morning and evening devotion, are a sweet and touching accompaniment. [ K. Arvine ]

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand. [ Tuckerman ]

A table without music is little better than a manger; for music at meals is like a carbuncle set in gold, or the signet of an emerald highly burnished. [ Epictetus ]

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. [ E. Burritt ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

Music is a source of surpassing delight to many minds. From its power to soothe the feelings and modify the passions, it seems desirable to understand it. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. [ Balzac ]

The direct relation of music is not to ideas, but emotions. Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. [ Henry Giles ]

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement. [ Napoleon I ]

As music has been the tardiest of arts to make its way through the great world, so it is peculiarly the tardiest of arts to make its way into a new country. [ T. Tilton ]

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definiteness. [ Edgar Allan Poe ]

Music is the harmonious voice of creation, an echo of the invisible world, one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound. [ Mazzini ]

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitation of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. [ M. Luther ]

The lines of poetry, the periods of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be pre-eminently musical. [ Shenstone ]

Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues. [ Simms ]

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]

Words are but poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power. [ H. R. Haweis ]

The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]

Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul. [ Richter ]

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. [ Lamb ]

A good ear for music, and a good taste for music, are two very different things winch are often confounded; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment. [ Lord Greville ]

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. [ Luther ]

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. [ Tuckerman ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. Considering I have no ear, nor even thought of music, the preference seems odd, and yet it is embraced on frequent reflection. [ H. Walpole ]

Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]

The night is made for tenderness; so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music; and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs, and on the lip made holy. [ N. P. Willis ]

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, - they make their mark. [ Joubert ]

I am persuaded that music is designed to prepare for heaven, to educate for the choral enjoyment of Paradise, to form the mind to virtue and devotion, and to charm away evil and sanctify the heart to God. [ Legh Richmond ]

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. [ R. W. Emerson ]

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams - they are the world in which he lives. [ Bettina von Arnim ]

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. [ Theodore T. Munger ]

Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]

I am constitutionally susceptible of noises; a carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. [ C. Lamb ]

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Character is like bells which ring out sweet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, resound with sweet music. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]

Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they do not know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the freemasons sign - they reveal the initiated to each other. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

'Tis the merry nightingale that crowds and hurries and precipitates, with fast thick warble, his delicious notes, as he were fearful that an April night would be too short for him to utter forth his love-chant, and disburden his full soul of all its music. [ Coleridge ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]

If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]

That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at once both body and soul; especially when I play myself; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instrument makes upon my heart. [ J. Beveridge ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]

There are two things which help to make music - melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. [ C. Kingsley ]

Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]

The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

The province of music is rather to express the passions and feelings of the human heart than the actions of men, or the operations of nature. When employed in the former capacity, it becomes an eloquent language; when in the latter, a mere mimic - an imitator, and a very miserable one - or rather a buffoon, caricaturing what it cannot imitate; the idea of the different stages of a battle, or the progress of a tempest being represented to the eye or the ear, or even the imagination, by the quavering of a fiddler's elbow, or the squeaking of catgut, is preposterous. [ G. P. Morris ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]