Alan Watts Quotes, Life Quotes, Music Quotes

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

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