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What is Love?

Music and Love

Quotes and Music about Love

Please read the meaning about the song written by Joe Hill to his wife. See how beautiful they are; forty years of love is gorgeous.

Listening for Love
By Jayne Fisher

There are times when we are timid and shy about expressing the love we feel. For fear of embarrassing the other person, or ourselves, we hesitate to say the actual words.I love you. So we try to communicate the idea in other words. We say take care or don't drive too fast or be good.

But really, these are just other ways of saying I love you. You are important to me, I care what happens to you, and I dont want you to get hurt all mean I love you. We are sometimes very strange people. The only thing we want to say, and the one thing that we should say, is the one thing we don't say. And yet because the feeling is so real, and the need to say it is so strong, we are driven to use other words and signs to say what we really mean. And many times the meaning never gets communicated at all and the other person is left feeling unloved and unwanted.

Therefore, I believe we have to listen for love in the words that people are saying to us. Sometimes the explicit words are necessary, but more often, the manner of saying things is even more important. A joyous insult carries more affection and love within the sentiments, which are expressed insincerely. An impulsive hug says I love you even though the words might be saying something very different.

Any expression of a person's concern for another says I love you. Sometimes the expression is clumsy, sometimes even cruel. Sometimes we must look and listen very intently for the love that it contains.

We say I love you in many ways - with birthday gifts, and little notes, with smiles and sometimes with tears. Sometimes we show our love by just keeping quiet and not saying a word, at other times by speaking out, even harshly. We show our love sometimes by impulsiveness.

Many times we have to show our love by forgiving someone who has not listened to the love we have tried to express. The problem is listening for love is that we don't always understand the language of love, which the other person is using. A girl may use tears or emotions to say what she wants to say, and her boyfriend may not understand her because he expects her to be talking his language.

We have to force ourselves to really listen for love. The problem with our world is that people rarely listen to each other. They hear the words, but they don't listen to the actions that accompany the words or the expression on the face. Or people listen only for rejection or misunderstanding. They do not see the love that is there just beneath the surface, even if the words are angry.

Simon and Garfunkel wrote that very haunting song, The Sound of Silence . It goes: Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking; people hearing without listening; people writing songs that voices never shared, because no one dared disturb the sound of silence... It is a terrifying picture of our modern world, a world without communication and without love.

We have to listen for love in those around us. If we listen intently we will discover that we are a lot more loved than we realise.
Just listen!

When Joe sent this song and a note, my heart stopped for a beat. Love like this is so precious and rare. After forty years he still adores his wife and she him; not like an old married couple, but a couple still madly in love. Many words are written on the subject, but if you’ve found love this deep, please send a story. This makes me cry of HOPE. My mother and father, her sister and husband, my grandparents, and my cousins seem to know what this is. Do they know, everyday, how blessed they are? We may find love, but do we stay “In love” forever.

Because love is:

Author: The Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

Ruth Sixteen

What kind of a title is that for a love song you are probably asking? Here's the story. When my wife and I wed some 40 years ago, we recited a Bible passage for our joint vows. Ruth 1:16-17 says,"Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me" In Feb. 11 for Valentine's Day I wrote this song for my wife and based the lyrics on this passage, hence Ruth Sixteen.

Joe

Bryan Adams's Everything I do “There's no love - like your love And no other - could give more love There's nowhere - unless you're there All the time - all the way”	Lionel Richie's Hello “I've been alone with you inside my mind And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times I sometimes see you pass outside my door Hello, is it me you're looking for?”
	Chicago's You're the Inspiration “You know our love was meant to be The kind of love that lasts forever And I want you here with me From tonight until the end of time You should know, everywhere I go You're always on my mind, in my heart”

Love Quotes Picture Cards

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
Author: Stephen F. Gaskin

Music is Love in search of a word.
Author: Sidney Lanier

Music is the key to the female heart.
Author: Johann G. Seume

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Author: Geoffrey Latham

Music is well said to be the speech of angels
Author: Thomas Carlyle

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
Author: Charlie Parker

Music should never be harmless.
Author: Robbie Robertson

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Author: Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Author: Red Auerbach

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Author: Joseph Addison

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
Author: George Gershwin

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems
Author: Arhtur O’Shanessey

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan’s Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.
Author: Steve Halpem

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

Where words fail, music speaks
Author: Hans Christian Anderson

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
Author: Buddy Holly

Without music life would be a mistake
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Author: Frank Zappa

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Author: Pat Conroy

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.
Author: Elvis Costello

Albert Einstein:

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Schweitzer:

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

Albert Schweitzer:

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Albert Schweitzer:

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

Henry David Thoreau:

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.

Hunter S. Thompson:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.

John Adams:

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Louis-Ferdinand C

"Love is a journey and with the right mate, its a joyful one."Anonymous

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."Unknown

To be able to truly love is to be able to love when there is no love in your heart.Unknown

Love Quotes Pictures

Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack's Tonight I celebrate my love
“Tonight I celebrate my love for you
It seems the natural thing to do
Tonight no one's gonna find us
We'll leave the world behind us”

When you love someone,
And you love them with your heart,
It never disappears,
When you're apart.
And when you love someone
And you've done all you can do,
You set them free,
And if that love was true...
When you love someone
It will all come back to you.
- From 'Forget Paris'.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb

Ruth Sixteen by Joe Hill

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