Musical Quotes - Page 40

• The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to man's body and mind. It will be an agency for building and healing his soul as well.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Healing, Men

  11 Copy quote

• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Inspiration, Mean, Healing

  14 Copy quote

• ...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he will recognize music as a vital factor in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual evolution of the whole human race.

  Corinne Heline

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Men

  Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Ego, Body

  6 Copy quote

• All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art. Their compositions contain specific messages brought through from high realms for the definite purpose of bettering world conditions and bestowing upon mankind greater illumination.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Inspiration, Illumination

  6 Copy quote

• During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Kings, Inspiration

  9 Copy quote

• The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Order, Civilization

  6 Copy quote

• Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin.

  Annie Dillard

  Editors, People, Tools

  7 Copy quote

• I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Believe, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2000). “Sunset at Blandings”, Penguin Group USA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Voice, Sound

  6 Copy quote

• Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Phrases, Metronomes

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play

  Joe Pass

  Thinking, Player, Ideas

  40 Copy quote

• Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Inspirational, Music, Jazz And Life

  279 Copy quote

• Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Joy, Ballet

  7 Copy quote

• Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Teacher, Teaching, Enough

  9 Copy quote

• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

  144 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;
  A radical thinker on a musical level.

  D-Nice

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Levels

  7 Copy quote

• What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.

  Michael Hutchence

  Fashion, Song, Light

  7 Copy quote

• If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Conversation, Duty

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Bird

  John Milton (1761). “L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel”, p.7

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Music, Night, Darkness

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

  5 Copy quote

• There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Music, Beautiful, Said

  103 Copy quote

• Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Song, Odd

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source