cool quotes about music

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. ~Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941



American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. ~Viva



Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li



You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton



Be a rebel against gravity: Skip! ~Jessi Lane Adams



Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French



O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard



How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler



Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ~Diogenes



Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. ~Saki



Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. ~John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980



The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit



I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse



The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. ~Carl Knudsen



We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all - friends? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ~R.H. Blyth



Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles



Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ~Proverbs 3:17