Upton Sinclair Quotes

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Music fathoms the sky.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

I can't imagine a world without music.

It's amazing what art can do.

Music is magic.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

Music creates order out of chaos.

My ambition was to live like music.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.