Music Quotes

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

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Wisdom, Song

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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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, Lonely, Loneliness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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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

  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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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Art, Guitar

  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

  Wisdom, Art, Healing

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

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• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Inspiration, Angel

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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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• It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Discovery, Perception, Intuition

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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

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• Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Bullshit, Jazz And 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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• I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

  Ira Gershwin

  Men, Rhythm, Gershwin

  "I Got Rhythm" (song) (1930)

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Real, Just Being, Jazz

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• If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

  James M. Barrie

  Teach, Ifs

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.91, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Forgiveness, Wisdom

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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  Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Art, Men, Horny

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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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

  Fake People, Peace, Lying

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• The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Art, Piano

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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, Food

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Wisdom, Thinking

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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

  Pat Conroy

  Journey, Desert, Jazz

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

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• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Expression, Jazz

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