Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Definitions of Music
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. Confucius
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music. Kurt Vonnegut
Music...is an invisible dance, as dancing is silent music. Jean Paul
Music is a kind of counting performed by the mind without knowing that it is counting. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing that it philosophizes. Arthur Schopenhauer
A method of employing the mind without the labour of thinking at all. Samuel Johnson
Music is not deception, but revelation. Its unique Power is to reveal to us elements of beauty which are not accessible by other means, the contemplation of which reconciles us to our lives not just for the moment, but for ever. Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The only reality in music is the state of mind which it induces in the listener. Stendhal
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are as dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.’ Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
Music is another planet. Alphonse Daudet
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy
Music is geometry in time. Arthur Honegger