Music Illusion

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins