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.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

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

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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 is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Music cleanses the understanding;
  inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
  which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Motivation, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “One Thousand Gems”, p.474

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Three

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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

  David Bowie

  Men, Interesting, Mediocrity

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• I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

  David Bowie

  Dad, Makeup, Thinking

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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 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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• People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Failure

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

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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