102 Metaphors for music
Their music is a kind of drum, as also hollow cocoa-nut shells.
The notes of the great god Pan, so "piercingly sweet by the river"a far cry and a weary way from Pan to Handel and Beethoven; yet during all that time music has been the joy and the consolation of peoples,all except the Quakers.
To Chopin, music was both a medicine and a disease, torment and solace.
Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.
German music has been our mobilization; it has gone on just as in a partitur by Richard Wagnerabsolute rapture with perfect precision!
Music, drawing, and modern languages are extras, but moderate.
He himself said to me, "Whenever I open my eyes I cannot but sigh, for all I see is counter to my religion and I must despise the world which does not comprehend that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Like many humble musicians his music is his life and he adds handsomely to his salary as a clerk by playing at dances and little concerts, and by giving lessons in the evening.
I have caught faint glimpses of that rich world of fancy and feeling, to which music is the golden door.
Before Chopin modernized pianoforte music the world's greatest composers had been Italians, Germans, and Frenchmen.
But he passed quickly from the music to those incomparable words of which the music was the mere vehicle and vesture.
The music was a marvel, but no one in the room heard it.
Mr. Watts-Dunton proceeds: "The finest music of Æschylus, of Pindar, of Shakespeare, of Milton, is after all, only a succession of melodious notes, and in endeavouring to catch the harmonic intent of strophe, antistrophe and epode in the Greek chorus and in the true ode (that of Pindar), we can only succeed by pressing memory into our service."
" The music, too, was urgentand persuasive.
She never tired in her interest in beholding fine paintings, and music was the continual delight of her life.
And now at the end of all this gossip, to see if it has served any purpose, and if the multitude of experiences totals up into any definite result: Of course, as you were just going to say, he said, "If music be the food of love."
Deaf old gentleman remarks that music is the STOEPEL entertainment at this theatre, and that he really likes it.
And it would have done you good to see how brightly Nino smiled and encouraged her little offer of musiche, the great artist, in whose life music was both sword and sceptre.
"Music is a mockery compared to such reading!
The music of a poem is its meaning in sound as distinguished from wordits meaning in solution, as it were, uncrystallized by articulation.
One of the sketches which you will find outlined in that little notebook is entitled, 'Is Music a Failure?'
And a lute from her mother receiving, With a blush that a miser would move, She treads a soft measure, believing That music is sister to love.
Besides, music is so thoroughly an expression of mood, and a good letter has so necessarily a unity of mood, that musicians, ex officio, tend to write correspondence that is literary without trying to be so, sincere without stupidity.
Still it is always a pleasant evening, one sees plenty of people to talk to and the music is a cheerful accompaniment to conversation.
The bad music was a great irritation to him.