Playing Music Quotes - Page 2

• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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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 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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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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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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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Music, Solitude, Inspirational Music

  Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

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• What passion cannot music raise and quell!

  John Dryden

  Music, Passion, Piano

  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day st. 2 (1687)

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• 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 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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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Missing You, Playing Jazz

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

  Bob Hope

  Music, Play, Names

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Music, Country, Inspiration

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

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• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

  Horace

  Music, Play, Strings

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• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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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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• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Essence

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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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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• 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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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

  William Cowper

  Music, Heart, Air

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  Xavier Cugat

  Inspirational, Swimming, Play

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sympathy, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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