Happy Rhythm & Vines folks !!! Some quotes and sayings..
Rhythm & Vines best known as R&V or simply Rhythm is an yearly music festival held at Waiohika Estate vineyard, located in the far neighborhood of the city of Gisborne, New Zealand. The festival originates from 2003 and was held for the one day of New Year’s Eve until 2008 when it expanded to the three days of 29–31 December. Its just getting bigger and much more exciting..
Quotes and Sayings
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. – Charlie Parker
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
It may only be a small storm yet a successful outcome is imminent. – Author Unknown
What we provide is an atmosphere… of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I’ve seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell. – Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. – William P. Merrill
If love played an instrument, I’ll bet it would be the piano. 88 keys, double infinity, and the ability to chop down trees with a sharpened mustache. – Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Music is the poetry of the air. – Richter
A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age. – Author Unknown
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. – Doménico Cieri Estrada
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. – Henri Rabaud
Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy
When words leave off, music begins. – Heinrich Heine
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
Play the music, not the instrument. – Author Unknown
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. – Sydney Smith
[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger. – John Chesson
My idea is that 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
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. – Oscar Wilde
He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. – Robert Browning
Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is what life sounds like. – Eric Olson
If this word “music” is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. – John Cage
You are the music while the music lasts. – T.S. Eliot
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. – Robert Fripp
Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud. – Author Unknown
All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. – Louis Armstrong
Survival is the treasured goal. – Author Unknown
Music is what feelings sound like. – Author Unknown
He who sings scares away his woes. – Cervantes
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. – H.A. Overstreet
Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
“Ask me what is the greatest thing in the world, I will reply: It is people, it is people, it is people!” – Author Unknown
Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven’t got the joke yet. – Oliver Herford
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. – Peter Jackson
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! – Oliver Wendell Holmes
In music the passions enjoy themselves. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. – Arnold Bennett
Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
When one chief falls, another one rises. – Author Unknown
In this world I greet my oldest survivor.. the earth. – Author Unknown
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. – Anaïs Nin
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. – Benjamin Disraeli
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. – Rainer Maria Rilke
You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow. – Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
A house full of people is a house full of different points of view. – Author Unknown
Music’s the medicine of the mind. – John A. Logan
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle
Who lives in a quiet house has plenty. – Author Unknown
Let us keep close together, not far apart. – Author Unknown
If the King loves music, it is well with the land. – Mencius
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. – Henry David Thoreau
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. – Henry Ward Beecher
