I know that I shall sing only a certain number of times. So I think to myself, Tonight I will hold back my voice. I will save it a little and that will mean I may be able to sing a few more times. But when I go before the audience, when I hear the music and begin to sing, I cannot hold back. I give the best there is in me I give all.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Music can alter one’s emotions in a positive or negative manner; use it wisely to soften pain or to invoke euphoria.
Music can reach depths words can't.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Music is emotion set to rhythm and tone.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
