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Great Music Quotes Island Park Elementary School And when an audience disperses, who can guess what griefs that singer may have comforted, what hard hearts he may have softened, what high thoughts he may have awakened?   - Bulwer-Lytton

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   (return to top of page)