Music Quotes

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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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Healing

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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, Spiritual, Determination

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

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Wisdom, Song

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• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

  Martin Luther

  Beautiful, God, Art

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• Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

  George Gershwin

  Jazz Hands, Cool Jazz, Jazz And Life

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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

  Inspiring, Heart, Blood

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• 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

  Laughter, Reality, Voice

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• Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Encouragement, Art, Passion

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• But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

  Bill Wyman

  Years, Radio, Young

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• Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life....

  Stephen Gaskin

  Love, Expression, Sound

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• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Memories, Magic, Ears

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• My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Art, Goal, Whole Life

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Bars, Understood

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• Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

  Art Tatum

  Kids, Practice, Jazz

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Wisdom

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• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

  John Coltrane

  People, Desire, Jazz

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• No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Healing, Matter, Culture

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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

  Heart, Expression, Color

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Waiting, Jazz, Moments

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Art, Resentment, Idiot

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• Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

  John Updike

  Giving, Permission

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• I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Principles, Relentless, Geometry

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Heaven, Jazz And Life

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