historian and retired members
Attend the Wisconsin State Music Confer- ence for more ideas to assist you, your stu- dents and communities in understanding the true value of the gift of music, which lasts a lifetime.
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~ Plato
Fond du Lac Symphonic Band Artis- tic Director Dr. Ray Wifler and Busi- ness Manager Mary Arthur are WMEA
Community Music Group mentors. See the WMEA web site for contact informa- tion:
http://www.wmeamusic.org/index. php?module=cms&page=50
Kristine McLain is a retired elementary music educator. Email:
kvmclain@charter.net
Music Quotes
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Music is the soul of language.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, light to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
~ Plato
~ Leo Tolstoy ~ Max Heindel
~ Edgar Winter ~ Bono ~ Plato ~ W. H. Auden ~ Herbie Hancock
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~ Victor Hugo
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. (When asked about his theory of relativity) ~ Albert Einstein
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
…music is an immediate art; it’s always happening right now…
~ Sam Andrew–guitar ~ The Kozmic Blues Band
~ Big Brother & The Holding Company ~Moby Grape
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Billy Joel ~ Geoffrey Latham
Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.
You are the music while the music lasts.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.
…you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live…
~ H. A. Overstreet ~ Berthold Auerbach
…although one can get very clever at home, progress comes a lot quicker if you step into a room with other people and start playing…
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, light to the imagination, and life to everything.
~ Hal A. Lingerman ~ T. S. Eliot
~ Anon ~ Bob Dylan
Music may achieve the highest of all missions: She may be a bond between nations, races and states, who are strangers to one another in many ways; She may unite what is disunited, and bring peace to what is hostile.
~ Steve Howe / Yes ~ Plato
~ Dr. Max Bendiner
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sources:
http://www.ducksdeluxe.com/quotes.html •
http://www.quotegarden.com/music.html www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_music.html
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