Beauty Quote by John Philip Sousa

“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source of keen…

— Marcel Proust

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood…

— Kathleen Valentine

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper…

— Yehudi Menuhin

“Don’t think that I imagine I’ll become a great artist. It’s simply that I want to do that to which I am drawn. Whether…

— Anonymous

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines thru the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful…

— Anonymous

“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.”

— Joseph Kerman

“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have…

— Rebecca West

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed what in…

— Oscar Wilde

“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard.... It began simply, but with an arresting phrase, so…

— Deanna Raybourn