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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:19 - Edited by: INQB8R
We all know... talking about music is like dancing on architecture. Anyway. On August 22, 2008 Sigur Ros will play in Riga, and recently we've came up to their famous video to the song 'Svefn-g-englar'. You can watch it up on YouTube:
Here is the list of the quotes shown during first minute-and-a-half of the movie:
Nietzche: Without music, life would be a mistake.
Lawrence Durrell: Music was invented to confirm music loneliness.
Leo Tolstoy: Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Victor Hugo: Music expresses that which cannot be said on which it is impossible to be silent.
Plato: Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Leopold Stokowski: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
(Originally, there is an addition to this quote which makes the things quite different: "We provide the music, and you provide the silence".)
Thomas Carlyle: See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Leonard Bernstein: Music can name the un-nameable and communicate the unknowable.
Henry Miller: In the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity.
Thomas Carlyle: Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
We were curious to search the web for more music quotes, and what we found is listed in next posts (most of them are taken from ThinkExist.com quotations bank, Heart Quotes and Quote Garden). I think this topic would describe even better how we are thinking on INQB8R. You'll see what you have to say about music is already said.
Turn on your ambient tune, read slowly and post back what you liked at most.
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Sergei Rachmaninov
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:38
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
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Aaron Copland
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:39
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Plato
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:39
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Plato
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:39
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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Edgar Watson Howe
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:39
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Lawrence Durrell
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:40
Music is only love looking for words.
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William Shakespeare
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:41
If music be the food of love, play on.
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Louis-Hector Berlioz
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:41
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
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Frank Zappa
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:41
Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.
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June Masters Bacher
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:41
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
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E. Y. Harburg
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:41
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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Pat Conroy
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:42
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:42
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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Noel Coward
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:43
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:43
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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Victor de LaPrade
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:44
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
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Walter Savage Landor
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:44
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:44
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Henry David Thoreau
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:45
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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:45
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:45
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:46
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Frederick Delius
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:46
Music is an outburst of the soul.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:46
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
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Virgil Thomson
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:47
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
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Jules Combarieu
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:47
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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Jules Combarieu
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:47
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Confucius
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:47
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:47
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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