Music and rhythm find their way
by Plato

Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life must be lived as play.
- Plato

Silence gives consent.
- Plato

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato

The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer

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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin

Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous

Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon

A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I set today's life-rhythm with my heart-drum.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou

Today is my day to paint in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with my heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as my celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie