Humans Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Human was the music, natural was the static.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Music Mystery Natural Nature Nature of man Science Static Universe
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I… — Mira Calix Copy Share Image
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human. — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
“It had been years since Melora listened to a symphony. She had been struck by how natural and organic the music was. She found… — Marie Zhuikov Copy Share Image
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.” — Deke Sharon Copy Share Image
“Truthfully some of my favorite music can only be heard outside through the natural melodies that live on the tongues of birds, the howl… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation.… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. — Klaus Schulze Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
