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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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• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• Music can change the world because it can change people.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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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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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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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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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

  John Denver

  Music, Heart, Expression

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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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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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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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• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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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 can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Communication, Talking

  Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Music, Mistake

  1889 Die Go« tzen-Da«mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols, translated by R J Hollingdale)

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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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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