Maya Angelou Quotes About Music

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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

• Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Dance, Earth Day

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 25, 2011

• My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Freedom, Race

  Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.85, Random House

• Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Black, Promise

• All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Riddle

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.185, Random House

• The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Lovers, My Family

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.324, Modern Library

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