Quotes by Music Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. Alfred Lord Tennyson tired music lying The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson piano music cities Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Alfred Lord Tennyson music voice sweet I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing. Alfred Lord Tennyson pipe singing music The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. Alfred Lord Tennyson music heart song It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. Alfred Lord Tennyson rift music silence For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. Alfred Lord Tennyson scandal cold music From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. Alfred North Whitehead music education children Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Alfred North Whitehead music use numbers Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. Ali Akbar Khan music real inspirational It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new recording that I will do, I have it all, everything." And it was so beautiful! He was like Moses coming down from the mountain. And when he recorded it, he knew everything, everything. He said this was the first time that he had all the music in his head at once to record. Alice Coltrane music practice beautiful ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed. Alice Coltrane music spiritual son a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep. Alice Foote MacDougall hours music sleep Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! Alice Herz-Sommer terrible music play From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings. Alice Smith peaceful music thinking Only dead people need loud music, you know. Alice Walker music people needs But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play. Alicia Keys music keys play Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language. Alicia Keys laughter music love When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Alicia Keys piano music mother So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history. Alicia Keys music artist change «1234567891011»