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George Eliot Quotes about Music

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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot
Music, Effort, Goes On
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot
Music, Thinking, Ideas
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

George Eliot
Music, Thinking, Should Have
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

George Eliot
Music, World, Invisible
George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

George Eliot
Music, Middlemarch, Interrupted
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

George Eliot
Music, Echoes, Law
George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

George Eliot
Music, Ears, Pipe
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

George Eliot
Music, Grief, Men
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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