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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, Dance

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  Bill Murray

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Tired, Eye

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

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• I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Term

  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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• Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Style, May, Jazz

  1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  Quoted in Robert Craft Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (1972).

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• The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

  Ornette Coleman

  Ideas, Style, Important

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Time, Bills, Boring

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Mistake, Teaching

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

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• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Art, Literature, Speech

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• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Looks, Enough

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• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Expression, Free Jazz

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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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• The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Artist, Voice, Singing

  Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

  Paul Hindemith

  Two, Cleaning, Conscience

  1938 Letter to Willy Strecker

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• Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Jazz And Life, Type, Stills

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Guitar, Self, Play

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  I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Horny, Horns, Heard

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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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• Music is love in search of a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Love You, Angel, Piano

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

  George Szell

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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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, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

  George Russell

  Writing, Self, Essence

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• Music is the fragrance of the universe.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music Is, Fragrance, Universe

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Sound And Music, Musical Life, Musical

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