Music Illusion

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart