Inspirational Music Quotes

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Mad, Would Be

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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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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Music, Art, Literature

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• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, Prayer

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• Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

  Johnny Depp

  Music, Rock N Roll, Power Of Music

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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's the medicine of the mind.

  John A. Logan

  Music, Health, Healing

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Music, Piano, Different

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• Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wine, Silence

  "The Vinyl Solution". Musician, Player, and Listener, No. 24, April/May 1980.

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• Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

  Michael Torke

  Funny, Music, Listening

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• If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

  Mencius

  Music, Kings, Land

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• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Funny, Music, Imports

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• Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

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• This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Jazz, States

  "What to Listen For in Music".

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• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

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

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Music, Piano, Soul

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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Philosophical, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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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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