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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIIn context
As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
Judy Garland1922–1969Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
Ariana Grandeborn 1993Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack (26 May 2017)
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
Seth Greenborn 1974
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds… ‘Cause there are so many sleeping people.
Jimi Hendrix1942–1970Dick Cavett interview (1969)
Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it’s OK if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
Josh Hommeborn 1973“Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink” The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
- Fame
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
E. W. Howe1853–1937
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo1802–1885William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Music at Night and Other Essays (1931), “The Rest is Silence”
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
Michael Jackson1958–2009
Schoenberg’s music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.
Wassily Kandinsky1866–1944Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), tr. Michael T. Sadler (1914); Dover reprint (1977), p. 17
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Art
They dinèd on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear1812–1888The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870)In context
- Dancing
- Food