After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music...Aldous Huxley
Artists are the antennae of the race. You can survive
without the arts, but it might not be worth it... Emerson
If you don't sing, you have no chance
of singing it right...Unknown
Music is to the mind as air it to the
body... Plato
Music is the universal language of mankind...
LongfellowIn the ideal state, education is paramount and art derives
its main value as a means for didactic purposes. Music is used to build
a harmonious personality and for calming human passions. Plato
It is in learning music that many youthful
hearts learn to love... Ricard
Learning to perform on stage is really
learning to live comfortably with fear. ..Isaac Ster
Let the love of literature, painting,
sculpture, architecture, and above all, music enter into your lives.
..Theodore Roosevelt
Music expresses that which cannot be
said, and which cannot be suppressed. ..Victor Hugo
Musical training is a more potent instrument
than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward
places of the soul... Plato
Music resembles poetry; in each are nameless
graces which no methods teach, and which a master-hand alone can reach.
..Alexander Pope
Play always as if a master were listening...
Schumann
Take a music bath once or twice a week
for a few seasons, and you'll find that it is to the soul what the water
bath is to the body... Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who disparages music as a luxury
and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than
ever before, is a national need. ..Woodrow Wilson
The meaning of song goes deep. Who is
there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us?
A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge
of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that! ..Carlyle
There are obviously two educations. One
should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live... James
Adams
Wouldst thou know if a people be well
governed, if its laws be good or bad? Examine the music it practices.
..Confucius
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