Music And Life Quotes - Page 3

• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Three

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

  John Michael Montgomery

  Together, Instinct, Hallmark

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• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

  Leigh Hunt

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• Where words leave off, music begins.

  Heinrich Heine

  Music, Inspirational Music, Musician

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• I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

  David Bowie

  Dad, Makeup, Thinking

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• If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Mental Health, Week

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Spiritual, Secret

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, Prayer

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• 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, Fear, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Wine

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• Music cleanses the understanding;
  inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
  which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Motivation, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “One Thousand Gems”, p.474

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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  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 Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Music, Song

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