Music Is Life Quotes - Page 2

• If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Music, God

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 11, 2015

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Song, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Music, Song

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Men, Piano

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

  Arnold Bennett

  Music, Wisdom, Dope

  Arnold Bennett (2004). “Sacred and Profane Love”, p.14, online-ebooks.info

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• Music is the key to the female heart.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• 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

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Danger

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

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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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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• 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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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• 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

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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  Langston Hughes

  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Wisdom, Stress

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

  Sydney Smith

  Music, Earth, Rapture

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• Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

  Sarah Dessen

  Music, Peace, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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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 saved my life. I mean, music is life. It is everything to me. It's why I can meet people - I was so shy as a kid, and when I started to write songs and perform them with my sister in front of the public, people started to talk to me, and that made me feel really good. Everything about it has always been positive.

  June Millington

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Names, People

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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