IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE…
William A. Breakspeare (c 1855-1914) If Music be the Food of Love If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The Melody of Art
IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ GREAT ARTISTS
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. Igor Stravinsky
IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ ON MUSIC
“…for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.” Irene Nemirovsky ― Suite Francaise
ANAIS NIN ~ ON MUSIC
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” ~Anais Nin Photos by Peter and Alice Gowland
VICTOR HUGO ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. “ ~Victor Hugo
BACH ~ ON MUSIC
“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” Johann Sebastian Bach German composer and musician (1685-1750)
TOLSTOY ~ ON MUSIC
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy
JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” Jean Cocteau
PLATO ~ MUSIC AS A MORAL LAW
“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. ” Plato
BENJAMIN BRITTEN ~ THE CRUEL BEAUTY OF MUSIC
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” Benjamin Britten
