Music This Must Be Heaven Quotes

#1. I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.

Hamilton Leithauser

#2. Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#3. The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?

Peggy Lee

#4. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.

John Henry Newman

#5. There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

Brigham Young

#6. I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven

The Cab

#7. Music is actually where I see heaven.

Emmanuel Jal

#8. Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

Mark Driscoll

#10. Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#11. Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

Isidore Of Seville

#12. God allows us glimpses into Heaven through beauty. We see the glimpses in nature, in paintings, we hear it in music, find it in words, but Heaven is shown to us most often, not through beautiful places, but through our love with others." "Like

Scott Thompson

#13. Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

Paul Billheimer

#14. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

Pythagoras

#15. Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

#16. I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Anthony Minghella

#17. Heaven ... a place where everything that is not music is silence.

George MacDonald

#18. Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

Karl Barth

#19. All of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison

#20. Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away; ...

Robert Montgomery

#21. Music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

#22. Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.

Unknown Author 429

#23. The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Richie Havens

#24. And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.

Brian Logan Dales

#25. I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Spencer W. Kimball

#26. I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

Jeff Ament

#27. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#28. There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#29. So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose
Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell
Before I'll see you with someone else.

The Band Perry

#30. Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

Saint John Chrysostom