"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

Music, Thought, Charm

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"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

Benny Bellamacina, British Author

Music, Creativity, Nature, Inspirational

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Ecstasy, Joy

"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heart, Soul, Joy

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Music, Dance, Speech, Stars

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heart, Bloom, Peace

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Life, Window

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Music, Being, Nonsense, Nothing

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"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."

God

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

Power

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."

Faith

"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds."

Death

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."

Reflection

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Explore more quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."

"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds."

"The smile of God is victory."

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day."

"One brave deed makes no hero."

"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."