Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Music is love in search of a word.
Where words leave off, music begins.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
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