"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Love | 11 bookmarks

"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Melville, Herman | Hope | 1 bookmarks

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van | Music | 9 bookmarks

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold | Music | 9 bookmarks

"In memory everything seems to happen to music."

Williams, Tennessee | Memory | 2 bookmarks

"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph | Love | 9 bookmarks

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Sagan, Francoise | Jazz | 2 bookmarks

"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music."

Holiday, Billie | Song and Singing | 2 bookmarks

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Parker, Charlie | Music | 1 bookmarks

"It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music."

Hoffer, Eric | Music | 1 bookmarks