Roberto Dell > Roberto's Quotes

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“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.”
― Confucius

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.”
― Michael Jackson

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”
― Janis Joplin

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant.

Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”
― Yukteswar Giri

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
― Pablo Casals

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

“Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.”
― Sri Yukteswar