Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
— Aaron Copland
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips.
— Adabella Radici
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
— Agnes de Mille
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April.
— Alexander Smith
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip their wings in tears, and skim away.
— Alfred Tennyson
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
— Arnold Bennett
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
— Artur Schnabel
