Hear Music Quotes (page 6)

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• choices
• art
• true

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. Orhan Pamuk

• music
• dance
• insanity

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin

• music
• dance
• thoughts

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

• music
• silence
• caring

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorld ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. Gerard Manley Hopkins

• touching
• manly
• mind

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. Gilbert Highet

• music
• writing
• words

I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. E. L. Doctorow

• music
• bad
• badness

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation. Oscar Wilde

• music
• painting
• creativity

Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from the evidence of every child ever born? they all want to hear and to tell stories, to sing, to make music, to act out little dramas, to paint pictures, to make sculptures. This is born in and we breed it out. And then, when we have bred it out, we say that art is elitist, and at the same time we either fetishize art? the high prices, the jargon, the inaccessibility? or we ignore... Jeanette Winterson

• music
• him
• march

lET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS Henry David Thoreau

• music
• dance
• dance music

See the music, hear the dance. George Balanchine

• music
• make
• heading

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself. Bob Dylan

• friend
• friends
• crying

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music. Ernest Gellner

• understanding
• smart
• real

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't. Jodi Picoult

• music
• reading
• manly

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it. Thomas Beecham

• music
• study
• history

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. Robert Schumann