Music And Life Quotes - Page 2

• There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• Music can change the world.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Life, Song

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 11, 2011

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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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• 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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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  Langston Hughes

  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

  Arnold Bennett

  Music, Wisdom, Dope

  Arnold Bennett (2004). “Sacred and Profane Love”, p.14, online-ebooks.info

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

  Sydney Smith

  Music, Earth, Rapture

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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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• 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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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Music, Years, Piano

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• I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

  Tiesto

  World, Harmony, Integrating

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• Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Music, Mean, Love Is

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1927). “About ourselves: psychology for normal people”

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

  David Bowie

  Men, Interesting, Mediocrity

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• I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

  David Bowie

  Years, Doe, Timeless Music

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

  David Bowie

  Challenges, Life Is, Absence

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

  Steve Earle

  Pain, Joy, Tolerance

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Needs

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

  Drake

  Simple, Things In Life, Inspired

  Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Rap, Tomorrow May Never Come, Cuz

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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