Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

W. H. Auden on Music

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

- W. H. Auden

Berthold Auerbach on Music

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Berthold Auerbach

Maya Angelou on Music

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

- Maya Angelou

Victor Hugo on Music

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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

- Victor Hugo

Sidney Lanier on Music

Friday, June 8th, 2007

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

- Sidney Lanier

Isaac Stern on Music

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

- Isaac Stern

Bryan Ferry on Music

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

- Bryan Ferry

T. S. Eliot On Music

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

You are the music while the music lasts.

- T. S. Eliot

Robert Browning On Music

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

- Robert Browning