Great Music Quotes

• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Literature, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Matter

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

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Wine

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• 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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• Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Memories, Inspirational Music, Facility

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

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

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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

  Music, Memories, Magic

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• Music can change the world.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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

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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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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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• 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 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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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• 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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  I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

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