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

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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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An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

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I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

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Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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We JAH people can make it work.

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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

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