Music Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“lET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS”

— Henry David Thoreau

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is the crystallization of sound.

— Henry David Thoreau

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

— Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

— Henry David Thoreau

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

— Henry David Thoreau

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

— Henry David Thoreau

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

— Henry David Thoreau

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

— Henry David Thoreau

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that…

— Henry David Thoreau

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

— Henry David Thoreau

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.

— Henry David Thoreau

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as…

— Henry David Thoreau

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero…

— Henry David Thoreau

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

— Henry David Thoreau

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the…

— Henry David Thoreau

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and…

— Henry David Thoreau

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

— Henry David Thoreau

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

— Henry David Thoreau

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

— Henry David Thoreau