John Lubbock There is a true music of nature; the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore; and the wail of wind or sea.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Hans Christian Anderson Where words fail, music speaks.
Zimbabwe African Proverb If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Bono Music can change the world because it can change people.
Ludwig van Beethoven Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ray Charles I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me—like food or water.
Robert Fulghum I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put together.
William Shakespeare and George Santayana The earth has music for those who listen.
Linda Hogan There is a way that nature speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
George Jellinek The history of a people is found in its songs.
Billy Joel 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.
Berthold Auerach Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Aaron Copland To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
E. Y. Harburg Words make you think a thought Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Plato Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Music gives a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Music is the universal language of mankind.
Rabindranath Tagore Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Henry David Thoreau 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.
Maria von Trapp Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Joseph Chilton Pearce To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Albert Einstein I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery (theory of relativity) was the result of musical perception.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Minnie Aumonier There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on earth contributes to its harmony.
OTHER QUOTES
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pinecones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets. And any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” Luther Burbank (American horticulturalist and botanist, 1849-1926)