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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Adelbert von Chamisso

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Henry Ward Beecher