Music Is Quotes - Page 2

• Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

  Sarah Dessen

  Music, Peace, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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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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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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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

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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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, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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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

  Music, Art, Men

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

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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• Music is the medicine of the mind.

  John Logan

  Music, Health, Healing

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Wine

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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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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Soul, Honor

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiring, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Inspirational, Music, Jazz And Life

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• They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Music, Sound, Opera

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• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

  Leigh Hunt

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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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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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Music, Art, Hip Hop

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Heart, Sick

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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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  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, Music, Spiritual

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

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

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

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