Music Quotes - Page 4

• My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Art, Goal, Whole Life

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• Music is only love looking for words.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Inspirational, Funny, Only Love

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Memories, Magic, Ears

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Waiting, Jazz, Moments

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Song, Sweet

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• Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

  Haruki Murakami

  Winter, Mind, Vision

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• Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, Praise, Rapture

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, African American, Self Improvement

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

  John McLeod

  Heart, Helping, Endure

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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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• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wisdom, Heart, Piano

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• Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  Sound, Let Me, Dies

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  My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  Edith Sitwell

  Funny, Reading, Silence

  Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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• Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Emotion, Shorthand, Musical

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• Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Skills, Littles

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• Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

  David O. McKay

  Moving, Soul, Language

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• The history of a people are found in its songs.

  George Jellinek

  Song, People, History

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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

  Motivation, Piano, Understanding

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

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• To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

  Don Ellis

  Thinking, Artist, Play

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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

  Fake People, Peace, Lying

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• Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Bullshit, Jazz And Life

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Food

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Music does bring people together.
  It allows us to experience the same emotions

  John Denver

  People, Together, Doe

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