Blast Quote by W. S. Gilbert

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out,…

— Florence Welch

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our…

— Alexander Pope

“It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in…

— Italo Calvino

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour…

— Samuel Rogers

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

— Horace Silver

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

— David Mitchell

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

— Rumi

“Music heals all forms of misery”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How may one describe enchantment? As he sang, his countenance softened, and without benefit of costume or any other artifice of the stage, the…

— Debra Dean

“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”

— Haruki Murakami